Linking by types in the hierarchical lexicon
Editorial CSLI PUBLICATIONS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CSLI PUBLICATIONS
- ISBN13 9781575862248
- ISBN10 1575862247
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 312
- Sammlung Studies in constraint-based lexicalism
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2001
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
General GrammarLinking by types in the hierarchical lexicon
Editorial CSLI PUBLICATIONS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Verbs describe actions, and their subject, objects, and other complements refer to various participants in those actions. For a verb referring to a certain type of action, what linguistic principles determine which participant is to be referred to by its subject, which by its object, and so forth? Many previous approaches to this problem have employed a set of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, to classify kinds of participants. The alternative presented in this book relies on certain basic features of verb meaning, such as causation, and on a hierarchical classification of verb meanings, to develop a simple but widely applicable set of principles that account for the observed range of verb types in human languages.