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  • Word Meaning and Syntax: Approaches to the Interface

    Word Meaning and Syntax by Wechsler, Stephen;

    Approaches to the Interface

    Series: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology; 9;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 19 March 2015

    • ISBN 9780199279883
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages370 pages
    • Size 247x181x28 mm
    • Weight 812 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure.

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    Long description:

    This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure. Stephen Wechsler begins by analysing the fundamental problem of word meaning, with discussions of vagueness and polysemy, complemented with a look at the roles of world knowledge and normative aspects of word meaning. He then surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators, and presents key theories of lexical semantic structure. Later chapters provide a description of formal theories and frameworks for capturing the mapping from word meaning to syntactic structure, as well as arguments in favour of a lexicalist approach to argument structure. The book will interest scholars of theoretical linguistics, particularly in the fields of syntax and lexical semantics, as well as those interested in psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.

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    Table of Contents:

    The role of word meaning in syntax
    Word meaning
    Argument alternations and cognates
    Lexical semantic structure
    Argument mapping approaches
    The lexical-constructional debate
    Some battlegrounds in the theory wars
    Postscript

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