A Theory of Predicates (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Ackerman, Farrell; Webelhuth, Gert

ISBN 10: 1575860864 / ISBN 13: 9781575860862

Editore: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, U.S.A., 1990

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• Titolo: A Theory of Predicates (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
• Editore: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575860864
• ISBN 13: 9781575860862
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good
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Lexicalism is a theory of information associated with words and what exactly a word is. The authors propose a different idea of what can be contained in words. Lexicalism is first and foremost a hypothesis about functional-semantic information and secondly a hypothesis about the formal expression of this information. Grammar rules cannot change the argument structure of words. Any change to the meaning of words must occur in the lexicon. A new lexical theory of complex predicates is proposed in this volume. The authors argue that previous lexicalist accounts within Lexical Functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar have abandoned certain crucial aspects of lexicalism in their efforts to account for analytically-expressed predicates, in particular permitting predicate-formation operations to occur within phrase structure. Although the theory is presented in detail primarily for German expressions of these predicates, consideration is given to cross-linguistic application of this theory.

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Lexicalism is a theory of information associated with words and what exactly a word is. A new lexical theory of complex predicates is proposed in this volume. Although the theory is presented in detail primarily for German expressions of these predicates, consideration is given to cross-linguistic application of this theory.