Semantic Structures
İÇİNDEKİLERContents Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction PART I BASIC MACHINERY Chapter 1 Overview of Conceptual Semantics 1.1 E-Concepts and I-Concepts 1.2 First Principles of I-Conceptual Knowledge 1.3 Three Models for the Description of Meaning 1.4 Organization of the Grammar 1.5 Intuitions about Lexical Relations 1.6 X-Bar Semantics 1.7 Where Traditional Features Fail 1.8 Appendix: Lexical Composition versus Meaning Postulates Chapter 2 Argument Structure and Thematic Roles 2.1 Basic Function-Argument Structures 2.2 The Status of Thematic Roles 2.3 Argument Fusion and Selectional Restrictions 2.4 Restrictive Modification Chapter 3 Multiple Thematic Roles for a Single NP 3.1 The Status of the 0- Criterion 3.2 Argument Binding 3.3 On So-Called Syntactic Binding 3.4 Appendix: Thematic Conditions on Control Chapter 4 Unifying Lexical Entries 4.1 Optional Outer Functions 4.2 Multiple Argument Structures 4.3 Remarks PART II MOSTLY ON THE PROBLEM OF MEANING Chapter 5 Some Further Conceptual Functions 5.1 Introduction to Part II 5.2 Verbs of Manner of Motion and Configuration 5.3 Inchoative 5.4 Kinds of Conceptual Clause Modification Chapter 6 Some Featural Elaborations of Spatial Functions 6.1 Distributive Location 6.2 Verbs of Touching 6.3 Verbs of Attachment 6.4 Verbs of Material Composition 6.5 Conclusion (s) Chapter 7 The Action Tier and the Analysis of Causation 7.1 The Roles Actor and Patient; the Action Tier 7.2 Varieties of Causation 7.3 Varieties of Dyadic Interaction; the Role Beneficiary 7.4 Temporal Relations between the Cause and the Effect 7.5 Extensions of Force-Dynamics to Logical Verbs and Psych-Verbs 7.6 The Role Instrument; Unifying the Uses of Hit 7.7 Argument Binding in Force-Dynamic Verbs 7.8 Appendix: Lexical versus Periphrastic Causatives PART III MOSTLY ON THE PROBLEM OF CORRESPONDENCE Chapter 8 Adjuncts That Express an Incorporated Argument 8.1 Introduction to Part III 1558.2 Fill and Cover 8.3 Butter, Powder, Water, Ice, and Frost 8.4 Empty, Uncover, and Skin 8.5 Bottle, Pocket, and Package 8.6 Load, Spray, Pack, Stuff, Clear, and Drain 8.7 Obligatory Adjuncts: Rid, Provide, Present, Deprive, Swarm, and Teem 8.8 The Passive By-Phrase Chapter 9 Adjuncts That Express an Argument of a Modifying Conceptual Clause 9.1 Three Kinds of For-Adjuncts 9.2 The Conceptual Structure of the For's of Beneficiary and Benefit; the Instrumental 9.3 Buy, Pay, and Sell 9.4 The Far-Exchange Adjunct Rule 9.5 "For-Dative" and "To-Dative" Adjuncts 9.6 Depictive Predication 9.7 Appendix: Control in Gerundive Secondary Predicates Chapter 10 Adjuncts that Express Arguments of a Superordinate Conceptual Clause 10.1 Babe Ruth Homered His Way into the Hearts of America 10.2 Alternative Approaches to the Way-Construction 10.3 Willy Jumped into Harriet's Arms 10.4 Charlie Laughed Himself Silly 10.5 An Alternative Treatment of Resultatives 10.6 Final Remarks on Adjuncts Chapter 11 Toward a Theory of Linking 11.1 The Notion of Linking Rules 11.2 What Conceptual Semantics Can Do for Linking Theory 11.3 What Linking Theory Can Do for Conceptual Semantics 11.4 Digression: What Is Left of Subcategorization? 11.5 Refining the Thematic Hierarchy 11.6 Factoring Argument Fusion 11.7 Linking Non-NP Arguments 11.8 The Subject and the External Argument 11.9 Incorporating Most of the Adjunct Rules 11.10 Depictive Predication Again 11.11 Summary 11.12 Appendix: Restatement of the Rest of the Adjunct Rules Epilogue Compositionality, Autonomy, Modularity Notes References Index of Words Discussed Index  |
