Aspect and Predication
The Semantics of Argument Structure
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 March 1997
- ISBN 9780198236511
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 225x147x20 mm
- Weight 433 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This is an important research monograph which addresses the issues at the centre of current theoretical debates. It investigates the relationship between meaning and grammatical form, focusing on the Scottish Gaelic language.
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This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships. It takes as its starting point the striking effects of nominal argument interpretation on aspectual semantics, pursuing the intuition that these effects are not quirky or exceptional, but are in fact the most visible reflexes of a more pervasive and systematic interaction between the aspectual event structure of a predicate and its arguments. The Scottish Gaelic language is the empirical base of the investigation, as it exhibits a set of predicational structures which interact in a highly visible way with its aspectual system. The book provides a detailed working out of a semantic system of argument classification which moves away from lexically-driven thematic roles in the traditional sense and towards a more constrained, syntactically motivated, set of primitives.
This monograph is an important contribution to several areas in formal linguistics... the book represents a significant milestone in the theoretical work on Irish/ SG and is the first major publication on the semantics of this language group for almost twenty years./ ... there is much to recommend this book. It is ground-breaking work in teh syntax-semantics interface and in Irish/ SG studies./ ... this book represents a significant advance in theoretical work on these languages./ Cathal Doherty, University College Dublin, Linguistics, Vol 35, 1999.
