The semantics of nominalizations across languages and frameworks


edited by Monika Rathert, Artemis Alexiadou.
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Berlin ; New York : : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2010.
Omfang
1 online resource (262 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Front matter; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Nominals don't provide criteria of identity; Nominalization in context - conflicting readings and predicate transfer; A cognitive-functional perspective on deverbal nominalization in English. Descriptive findings and theoretical ramifications; A new account of possessors and event nominals in Hungarian; The semantics of eventive suffixes in French; Action nominals inside: lexical-semantic issues; Syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation and interpretation of -ung-nouns. - The rivalry of French -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective Back matter. - The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.
Emner
Sjanger
Electronic books. . - Konferansepublikasjoner : https://id.nb.no/vocabulary/ntsf/378. - Konferanser (Form) : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01265. - Konferanser
Dewey
415
ISBN
9783110226539

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