The Roots of Verbal Meaning by John Beavers (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Roots of Verbal Meaning by John Beavers, Andrew Koontz-Garboden Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 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. Publisher Description This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. John Beavers and Andrew Koontz-Garboden adopt the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly of anevent structure, made up of two elements: an event template describing the verbs broad temporal and causal contours, which occurs across lots of verbs and groups them into semantic and grammaticalclasses; and an idiosyncratic root describing specific, real world states and actions that distinguish between verbs with the same template. While much work has focused on templates, less work has addressed the truth-conditional contributions of roots, despite the importance of a theory of root meaning in fully defining the predictions made by event structural approaches. This book aims to address this gap by exploring two previously proposed constraints on root meaning: The Bifurcation Thesisof Roots, whereby roots never introduce the meanings introduced by templates, and Manner/Result Complementarity, which specifies that roots can describe either a manner or a result state but never bothat the same time. Two extended case studies, on change-of-state verbs and ditransitive verbs of caused possession, show that neither hypothesis holds, and that ultimately there may be no constraints on what a root can mean. Nonetheless, the book argues that event structures still have predictive value: it presents a new theory of possible root meanings and their interaction with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, in which systematic semantic and grammaticalproperties are determined not just by templates, but also by roots. Author Biography John Beavers is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests are largely in the area of lexical semantics, where he has explored the ways in which word meanings are decomposed into more basic components, how these components are interpreted truth conditionally, and the principles by which a words meaning correlates with and ultimately determines its grammatical behaviour. This work hasincluded detailed studies of relevant phenomena in a range of languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Colloquial Sinhala, Kinyarwanda, and Romanian, plus cross-linguistic andtypological studies. His research has been published in journals such as Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Linguistic Inquiry.Andrew Koontz-Garboden is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at The University of Manchester, where he has worked since 2007. He is interested in in the morphosyntax/semantics interface and the implications of cross-linguistic variation for the nature of that interface. His work has drawn on data from a range of languages, including Basaa (Bantu; Cameroon), Huave (isolate, Mexico), Spanish, Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua), and English. He is theco-author, with Itamar Francez, of Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts (OUP 2017), and author of multiple articles in journals such as Lingua, NaturalLanguage Semantics, and Theoretical Linguistics. Details ISBN 0198855788 ISBN-13 9780198855781 Title The Roots of Verbal Meaning Author John Beavers, Andrew Koontz-Garboden Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 278 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:134530235; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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