UID:
almahu_9949721510802882
Format:
1 online resource (304 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783823392439
Series Statement:
Studien zur deutschen Sprache 81
Content:
Modern theoretical linguistics lives by the insight that the meanings of complex expressions derive from the meanings of their parts and the way these are composed. However, the currently dominating theories of the syntax-semantics interface hastily relegate important aspects of meaning which cannot readily be aligned with visible structure to empty projecting heads non-reductively (mainstream Generative Grammar) or to the syntactic construction holistically (Construction Grammar). This book develops an alternative, compositional analysis of the hidden aspectual-temporal, modal and comparative meanings of a range of productive constructions of which pseudorefl exive, excessive and directional complement constructions take center stage. Accordingly, a contradiction-inducing hence semantically problematic part of literally coded meaning is locally ignored and systematically realized "expatriately" with respect to parts of structure that achieve the indexical anchoring of propositional contents in terms of times, worlds and standards of comparison, thus yielding the observed hidden meanings.
Note:
[1. Auflage]
,
1 Introduction 2 Weaker construction 2.1 Hiding modality 2.2 Strengthening and weakening 2.3 Plural matters 3 Wrenches and nails 3.1 Phenomenal and ordinary individuals 3.2 Weak theories of comparatives 3.3 Transitivity vs. inclusion semantics 4 Bound to contradict 4.1 llegal reflexivization 4.2 Infinite mis-construction 4.3 Mostly up, or sideways 5 Summary
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783823382430
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2357/9783823392439
URL:
http://doi.org/10.2357/9783823392439
