Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax

by Gillian Catriona Ramchand

Book Overview

The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular classification of verb types within English and across languages. Ramchand argues that lexical encyclopedic content and event structural aspects of meaning need to be systematically distinguished, and that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521182344
• ISBN13: 9780521182348
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"