| Description |
1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Empirically oriented theoretical morphology and syntax ; 7 |
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Empirically oriented theoretical morphology and syntax ; 7.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Berthold Crysmann & Manfred Sailer -- One lexeme, many classes: inflection class systems as lattices / Sacha Beniamine -- Deconstructing exuberant exponence in Batsbi / Berthold Crysmann -- Periphrasis and morphosyntatic mismatch in Czech / Oliver Bonami & Gert Webelhuth -- The issue of "separability" in Persian complex predicates / Pegah Faghiri & Pollet Samvelian -- Subject inversion in French object relatives: What's your preference? / Céline Pozniak, Anne Abeillé & Barbara Hemforth -- Negative conjuncts and negative concord across the board / Manfred Sailer & Frank Richter -- Modification of literal meanings in semantically non-decomposable idioms / Sascha Bagmann, Berit Gehrke & Frank Richter |
| Summary |
"The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with functional application in meaning. In this book, we discuss linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules (morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem to the standard view, mapping out the potential for deviation from the ideal of one-to-one correspondences, and develop formal accounts of the range of phenomena. We argue that a constraint-based perspective is particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many correspondences, as it allows us to impose constraints on full structures (such as a complete word or the interpretation of a full sentence) instead of deriving such structures step by step."--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL) |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax.
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Semantics, Comparative.
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Language arts.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax
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Language arts
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Semantics, Comparative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crysmann, Berthold, editor
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Sailer, Manfred, editor
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| ISBN |
9783961103072 |
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3961103070 |
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