Název: On correlations between range in verb descriptivity and syntactic applicability
Zdrojový dokument: Brno studies in English. 2016, roč. 42, č. 1, s. [23]-47
Rozsah
[23]-47
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ISSN0524-6881 (print)1805-0867 (online)
Trvalý odkaz (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2016-1-2
Trvalý odkaz (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/136082
Type: Článek
Jazyk
anglicky
Licence: Neurčená licence
Abstrakt(y)
The paper attempts to identify factors underlying apparent correlations between the level of descriptivity in verbs of self-agentive locomotion and the range of syntactic constructions in which these verbs may occur. While it has become clear that event structure theories provide a partial account of the connections between verbal semantics and syntactic behaviour, Boas's account (2006, 2008), deriving from the theory elaborated by Snell-Hornby (1983), would seem to be on the right track in offering a more fine-grained analysis of verbal lexical semantic structure. What remains to be answered is which elements of a verb's meaning are syntactically relevant and what underlies their sensitivity to syntax. The paper argues that an account of a verb's syntactic applicability must appeal to the interaction between the verb's lexical semantic structure and the causal structuration of a situation as encoded in a given construction.
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[7] Čulo, Oliver, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Sabine Schulte im Walde (2008) 'Comparing and combining semantic verb classifications.' Language Resources and Evaluation 42(3): 265-291.
[8] Dixon, Robert M. W. (1971) 'A method of semantic description.' In: Steinberg, Danny D. and Leon A. Jakobovits (eds.) Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 436–471.
[9] Dowty, David R. (1979) Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
[10] Faber, Pamela B. and Ricardo Mairal Usón (1999) Constructing a Lexicon of English Verbs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[11] Fellbaum, Christiane (1990) 'English verbs as a semantic net.' International Journal of Lexicography 3(4): 278–301. | DOI 10.1093/ijl/3.4.278
[12] Fellbaum, Christiane (2002) 'Autotroponymy.' In: Ravin, Yael and Claudia Leacock (eds.) Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 52–67.
[13] Fillmore, Charles J. (1982) 'Frame semantics.' In: The Linguistic Society of Korea (ed.) Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing, 111–137.
[14] Fillmore, Charles J. (1985) 'Frames and the semantics of understanding.' Quaderni di Semantica 6(2): 222–254.
[15] Goldberg, Adele E. (1998) 'Patterns of experience in patterns of language.' In: Tomasello, Michael (ed.) The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 203–219.
[16] Goldberg, Adele E. (2002) 'Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations.' Cognitive Lin-guistics 13(4): 327–356.
[17] Jackendoff, Ray (1983) Semantics and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[18] Jackendoff, Ray (1990) Semantic Structures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[19] Kudrnáčová, Naděžda (2008) Directed Motion at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Brno: Masaryk University.
[20] Kudrnáčová, Naděžda (2013) Caused Motion: Secondary Agent Constructions. Brno: Masaryk University.
[21] Kudrnáčová, Naděžda (2015) 'On the holistic status of direct object participants.' Ostrava Journal of English Philology 7(1): 57–67.
[22] Langacker, Ronald W. (1987) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Vol. 1: Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
[23] Levin, Beth (1993) English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[24] Levin, Beth and Malka Rapapport Hovav (2005) Argument Realization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[25] Randall, Janet H. (2010) Linking: The Geometry of Argument Structure. Dordrecht: Springer.
[26] Rappaport Hovav, Malka and Beth Levin (1998) 'Building verb meanings.' In: Butt, Miriam and Wilhelm Geuder (eds.) The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Compositional Factors. Stanford, CA: CSLI, 97–134.
[27] Rappaport Hovav, Malka and Beth Levin (2001) 'An event structure account of English resultatives.' Language 77(4): 766–797. | DOI 10.1353/lan.2001.0221
[28] Ruppenhofer, Josef, Michael Ellsworth, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Christopher R. Johnson and Jan Scheffczyk (2010) FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice. Available online at: https:// framenet2.icsi.berkeley.edu/docs/r1.5/book.pdf. Accessed on 2 June, 2015.
[29] Shibatani, Masayoshi (1976) 'The grammar of causative constructions: A conspectus.' In: Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.) Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 6: The Grammar of Causative Constructions. New York: Academic Press, 1–40.
[30] Snell-Hornby, Mary (1983) Verb-descriptivity in German and English: A Contrastive Study in Se-mantic Fields. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag.
[31] Taylor, John R. (1996) 'On running and jogging.' Cognitive Linguistics 7(1): 21–34. | DOI 10.1515/cogl.1996.7.1.21
[32] Van Valin, Robert D. and Randy J. LaPolla (1997) Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[33] Vendler, Zeno (1957) 'Verbs and times.' The Philosophical Review 66(2): 143–160. | DOI 10.2307/2182371
[34] Warglien, Massimo, Peter Gärdenfors and Matthijs Westera (2012) 'Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs.' Theoretical Linguistics 38(3–4): 159–193.
[35] Wunderlich, Dieter (2000) 'Predicate composition and argument extension as general options - a study in the interface of semantic and conceptual structure.' In: Stiebels, Barbara and Dieter Wunderlich (eds.) Lexicon in Focus. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 247–270.