Screen LibrarySemi-lexical categories : the function of content words and the content of function words /
The distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to deci...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. ©2001 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in generative grammar [sgg] ;
volume 59 |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to decide whether they side with the lexical categories or the functional ones. This book deals with the grammatical behavior of such in- between-categories, which are referred to here as "semi-lexical categories". |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (viii, 554 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110874006 |
| Index Number: | P283 |
| CLC: | H042 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Semi-lexical categories / The flat structure economy of semi-lexical heads / Heads and selection / Children's semi-lexical heads / Semantically empty lexical heads as last resorts / Numeral/Quantifier-Classifier as a complex head / Classifiers and semi-lexicality: Functional and semantic selection / Agreement patterns of Czech group nouns and quantifiers / On the (semi)lexical status of light verbs / "Semi-lexical" motion verbs in Romance and Germanic / Underspecification in serial verb constructions / Semi-lexical heads in a semantically charged syntax / As for as / for, they are semi-lexical heads / Lexical particles, semi-lexical postpositions / Index. |