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Autore: | Francez Itamar |
Titolo: | Semantics and morphosyntactic variation : qualities and the grammar of property concepts / / Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 401.43 |
Soggetto topico: | Semantics, Comparative |
Persona (resp. second.): | Koontz-GarbodenAndrew |
Note generali: | This edition previously issued in print: 2017. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Lexical semantics and morphosyntactic patterns -- Variation in the form of property concept sentences: The explananda -- The lexical semantic variation hypothesis -- The locus of variation in property concept sentences -- Meaning and category: semantic constraints on parts of speech -- Quality nouns and other mass nouns. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores why different languages have systematically different ways of saying the same thing. It focuses on adjectival predication and shows that systematic differences in the meaning of words expressing adjectival notions have systematic effects on the form of the sentences they appear in. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Semantics and morphosyntactic variation |
ISBN: | 0-19-180583-1 |
0-19-106203-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910213852903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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