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A central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by which the participants in an event described by a sentence come to occupy their positions and acquire their interpretation. The papers included in this volume explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences by confronting two competing approaches to this issue. A long-standing approach is based on the assumption that it is the lexical meaning of a verb that determines, albeit indirectly, the basic properties of sentence structure at the level of verbal meaning, including asymmetric relations, thematic roles, case, and agreement. An alternative approach claims that, to a large extent, the syntax itself establishes possible verbal meanings on the basis of the legitimate relations that can exist between syntactic heads, complements, and specifiers. Amharic, Catalan, Chamorro, Chukchee, English, Georgian, Inuit, Korean, Malagasy, Slovenian and Spanish, are among the languages used to provide empirical evidence and illustrate the argumentation.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Experiments at the Interfaces
• Author: Jeff Runner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9781780523767
• ISBN: 1780523769
• ID: 04420075
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Weight: 604 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 162 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2011

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