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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 October 2009
      06 March 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511486319
      9780521842402
      9780521182348
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486319
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.524kg, 228 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.31kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (116)
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    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (116)
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    The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular classification of verb types within English and across languages. Ramchand argues that lexical encyclopedic content and event structural aspects of meaning need to be systematically distinguished, and that thematic and aspectual relations belong to the latter domain of meaning. The book proposes a syntactic decompositional view of core verbal meaning, and sets out to account for the variability and systematicity of argument structure realisation across verb types. It also proposes an interesting view of lexical insertion.

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