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Explores why different languages have systematically different ways of saying the same thing. It focuses on adjectival predication and shows that systematic differences in the meaning of words expressing adjectival notions have systematic effects on the form of the sentences they appear in.
Semantics. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Language and languages --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Semantics, Comparative. --- Comparative semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- morphosyntactic variation --- property concepts --- lexical semantics --- lexical categories --- qualities --- mass nouns --- adjectives --- semantic variation --- Denotation --- Lexeme --- Part of speech --- Predicate (grammar) --- Syntax
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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.
English language --- Verb. --- Semantics, Historical. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Verb --- Historical semantics --- Historical lexicology --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Conjugation --- Periphrastic verbs --- Germanic languages --- Linguistics --- Philology
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Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- English language
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This book explores a key issue in linguistic theory, the systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical meaning in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (i) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (ii) transparency, whereby systematic variation in form arises from systematic variation in the meaning of basic lexical items.
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