Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns

In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge. It is argued that there is a lexicalization pattern ref...

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Autor principal:	M. Teresa Espinal
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2004
Materias:	syntax semantics idioms lexicalization patterns bare nouns Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b4875114b79b4f5d9591c68aa0d08e2e2021-11-27T10:49:17ZLexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns10.5565/rev/catjl.1041695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/b4875114b79b4f5d9591c68aa0d08e2e2004-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/104https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge. It is argued that there is a lexicalization pattern reflecting semantic conflation (Talmy 1985, 2000) between cause and degree. This pattern, in syntactic terms, is the output of subsequent Merge operations (Chomsky 1995) between the object noun of a monadic argument structure, an indefinite quantifier and an adjunct phrase. The study of this lexicalization pattern is of interest with regard to the semantics of bare nouns, especially of bare count singular nouns in object position; it is proved that bare nouns are interpreted as properties, and, because of this, they permit quantification over degrees. By contrast, there is a second lexicalization pattern starting from a composite argument structure which licenses an individual or a kind denoting reading for the DP object.M. Teresa EspinalUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlesyntaxsemanticsidiomslexicalization patternsbare nounsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2004)
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description	In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge. It is argued that there is a lexicalization pattern reflecting semantic conflation (Talmy 1985, 2000) between cause and degree. This pattern, in syntactic terms, is the output of subsequent Merge operations (Chomsky 1995) between the object noun of a monadic argument structure, an indefinite quantifier and an adjunct phrase. The study of this lexicalization pattern is of interest with regard to the semantics of bare nouns, especially of bare count singular nouns in object position; it is proved that bare nouns are interpreted as properties, and, because of this, they permit quantification over degrees. By contrast, there is a second lexicalization pattern starting from a composite argument structure which licenses an individual or a kind denoting reading for the DP object.
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title	Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns
title_short	Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns
title_full	Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns
title_fullStr	Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns
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Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns

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