The Roots Of Verbal Meaning
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Author | : John Beavers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198855788 |
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.
Author | : John Beavers (Professor of linguistics) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780191889417 |
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.
Author | : Robert W. Young |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780826321725 |
Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.
Author | : Maya Arad |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005-11-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1402032447 |
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
Author | : Derek Bickerton |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-02-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3946234089 |
Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author's most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Author | : Horace Gerald Danner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 1007 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1442233265 |
Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.
Author | : Andreas Willi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107195551 |
This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.
Author | : Seizi Iwata |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008-06-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027291047 |
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.
Author | : Ray Jackendoff |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191620688 |
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.
Author | : Ryan Dux |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027261016 |
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.