Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-97100-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as an explanatory tool. This book argues that a large majority of such argument structure phenomena are better accounted for by recourse to enriched representations in lexical semantics. Drawing insights from conceptual semantics, cognitive semantics, Generative Lexicon, construction grammar and formal syntax, this book constitutes the first attempt at a comprehensive account of lexical semantic issues in Mandarin Chinese.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Ren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Variation in Argument Expression Chapter 2: Constructions, Conceptual Structures and Compositionality Chapter 3: The Eat Restaurant Construction: Licensing Unselected Complements Chapter 4: Conceptual Inference and Predicate Transfer Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ren Zhang is a visiting professor in linguistics at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2002 from York University.