The roots of verbal meaning
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...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2020, 2020
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Series: | Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics / Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Physical Description: | 288 pages |
ISBN: | 9780191889417 |