English nouns : the ecology of nominalization / / Rochelle Lieber [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Lieber Rochelle <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 425/.54
• Soggetto topico: English language - Nouns; English language - Nominals; English language - Grammar
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Part I Preliminaries; 1 Introduction; 2 Terminology and Methodology; 2.1 Terminology; 2.2 Methodology; Part II Data; 3 Event/Result Nominalizations; 3.1 Previous Claims; 3.2 Nineteen Questions; 3.3 Adding It All Up; 4 Nominalizations as a Derivational Ecosystem; 4.1 The Derivational Ecosystem; 4.2 Forms and Readings; 4.3 Inanimate Patient Nouns; 4.4 Conclusion; Part III Nominalization in LSF; 5 A Lexical Semantic Approach to Nominalization: The Basics; 5.1 Recap of LSF ; 5.2 E versus R Skeletons: A First Pass6 The Eventive Reading; 6.1 ATK Nominalizations with the Eventive Reading; 6.2 -ing Nominalizations; 6.3 Conversion Nouns; 6.4 A Note on Simplex Nouns; 6.5 Conclusion; 7 Referential Readings; 7.1 Basic Skeletons; 7.2 Referential Readings for ATK, -ing, and Conversion Ns; 7.3 Personal and Participant Nominalizations; 7.4 Abstract Nominalizations; 7.5 Collectives; 7.6 Underpopulated Habitats; 7.7 Modal and Evaluative Elements of Affixal Meaning; 7.8 Conclusion; 8 Nominalization and Compounding in LSF; 8.1 Claims; 8.2 The Corpus Data; 8.3 The LSF Analysis ; 8.4 Conclusions and Loose Ends9 Nouns in the Wild; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in which English nominalizations can be found and the range of possible readings they can express are very different from what has been claimed in past theoretical treatments, and therefore that previous treatments cannot be correct. Lieber argues that the relationship between form and meaning in the nominalization processes of English is virtually never one-to-one, but rather forms a complex web that can be likened to a derivational ecosystem. Using the Lexical Semantic Framework (LSF), she develops an analysis that captures the interrelatedness and context dependence of nominal readings, and suggests that the key to the behavior of nominalizations is that their underlying semantic representations are underspecified in specific ways and that their ultimate interpretation must be fixed in context using processes available within the LSF.
• Titolo autorizzato: English nouns
• ISBN: 1-316-78439-8; 1-316-78631-5; 1-316-78663-3; 1-316-61387-9; 1-316-67628-5; 1-316-78695-1; 1-316-78823-7; 1-316-78727-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136611803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 150.