One-to-many-relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics Manfred Sailer, Berthold Crysmann. Volume 7

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sailer, Manfred, editor.

Crysmann, Berthold, editor.

Series:

Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Place of Publication:

Language Science Press 2021

Berlin : Language Science Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with functional application in meaning. In this book, we discuss linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules (morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem to the standard view, mapping out the potential for deviation from the ideal of one-to-one correspondences, and develop formal accounts of the range of phenomena. We argue that a constraint-based perspective is particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many correspondences, as it allows us to impose constraints on full structures (such as a complete word or the interpretation of a full sentence) instead of deriving such structures step by step.

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783985540037

3985540039

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4638824