Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic (Dissertations in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Geenhoven, Veerle Van

 
9781575861333: Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic (Dissertations in Linguistics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 157586133X ISBN 13: 9781575861333
Verlag: CTR FOR STUDY OF LANG & INFO, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This volume presents 'semantic incorporation' as an analysis accounting for many striking similarities between the semantic properties of incorporated nouns in West Greenlandic and bare plurals and split noun phrases in West Germanic language. This analysis uniformly treats these nominal expressions as predicative indefinites. At the outset, van Geenhoven explores the empirical basis for why semantic incorporation is needed. The inability of existing semantic theories of indefinites as well as current structural approaches to noun incorporation to account for the data observed is then explored, and, finally, the work presents semantic incorporation as a subtheory of indefinites. This volume will be of interest to semanticists, lexicalists, syntacticians and linguists.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
CTR FOR STUDY OF LANG & INFO
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
157586133X
ISBN 13 
9781575861333
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
246
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781575861326: Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic (Dissertations in Linguistics)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1575861321 ISBN 13:  9781575861326
Verlag: Center for the Study of Language..., 1998
Softcover