A Theory of Predicates

Farrell Ackerman Gert Webelhuth

ISBN 10: 1575860864 / ISBN 13: 9781575860862

Edité par Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford, 1998

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5 cm crease in margin of first five pages. No other faults.

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• Titre: A Theory of Predicates
• Éditeur: Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1575860864
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781575860862
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Very Good

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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.