A Theory of Predicates

Ackerman, Farrell, Webelhuth, Gert

ISBN 10: 1575860864 / ISBN 13: 9781575860862

Edité par CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information, 1997

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur: Farrell Ackerman is professor of linguistics and director of the Human Development Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : A Theory of Predicates
Éditeur : CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good