The Roots of Verbal Meaning

The Roots of Verbal Meaning
Title The Roots of Verbal Meaning PDF eBook
Author John Beavers
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 277
Release 2020
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0198855788

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and their interaction with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, with semantic and grammatical properties determined not just by templates, but also by roots.

The Navajo Verb System

The Navajo Verb System
Title The Navajo Verb System PDF eBook
Author Robert W. Young
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 354
Release 2000
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780826321725

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Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.

Roots and Patterns

Roots and Patterns
Title Roots and Patterns PDF eBook
Author Maya Arad
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 294
Release 2005-11-27
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1402032447

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In-depth investigation of Hebrew verb morphology in light of cutting edge theories of morphology and lexical semantics An original theory about the semantic content of roots An account of how roots function in word-formation A wide empirical basis containing a complete corpus of verb-creating roots in Hebrew

Grammatical Constructions

Grammatical Constructions
Title Grammatical Constructions PDF eBook
Author Mirjam Fried
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 257
Release 2005-12-14
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027294070

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This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language. By exploring the analytic potential and applicability of this notion, the contributions illustrate some of the fundamental concerns of constructional research. These include issues of sentence structure in a model that rejects the autonomy of syntax; the contribution of Frame Semantics in establishing the relationship between syntactic patterning and the lexical meaning of verbs; and the challenge of capturing the dynamic and variable nature of grammatical structure in a systematic way. All the authors share a commitment to studying grammar in its use, which gives the book a rich empirical dimension that draws on authentic data from typologically diverse languages.

Locative Alternation

Locative Alternation
Title Locative Alternation PDF eBook
Author Seizi Iwata
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 258
Release 2008-06-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027291047

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The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.

The Verbal Domain

The Verbal Domain
Title The Verbal Domain PDF eBook
Author Roberta D'Alessandro
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 343
Release 2017
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0198767889

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This volume features cutting-edge research from leading authorities on the nature and structure of the verbal domain and the complexity of the Verb Phrase (VP). The book is divided into three parts, representing the areas in which contemporary debate on the verbal domain is most active. The first part focuses on the V head, and includes four chapters discussing the setup of verbal roots, their syntax, and their interaction with other functional heads such as Voice and v. Chapters in the second part discuss the need to postulate a Voice head in the structure of a clause, and whether Voice is different from v. Voice was originally intended as the head hosting the external argument in its specifier, as well as transitivity. This section explores its relationship with "syntactic" voice, i.e. the alternation between actives and passives. Part three is dedicated to event structure, inner aspect, and Aktionsart. It tackles issues such as the one-to-one relation between argument structure and event structure, and whether there can be minimal structural units at the basis of the derivation of any sort of XP, including the VP.

Frame-Constructional Verb Classes

Frame-Constructional Verb Classes
Title Frame-Constructional Verb Classes PDF eBook
Author Ryan Dux
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 332
Release 2020-11-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027261016

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While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar. On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions. This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German–English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions.