Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Melloni, Chiara

Titolo:

Action nominals inside: Lexical-semantic issues

Anno:

2010

Tipologia prodotto:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

A Stampa

Titolo libro:

The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

Casa editrice:

MOUTON DE GRUYTER

ISBN:

9783110226539

Intervallo pagine:

141-168

Parole chiave:

NOMINALS; POLYSEMY; ASPECTUAL PROPERTIES; EVENT STRUCTURE

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

The main aim of this paper is to investigate a relevant portion of Event/Result polysemy by focusing on its regular patterns and looking "inside" action nominals, hence paying attention to verbal semantics, rather than examining their behaviour in the syntactic context. The hypothesis I will develop is that it is possible to predict (at least to a certain extent) the potential polysemy of action nominals by exploring the structural and, especially, the conceptual semantics of the base verb. The analysis of several verb classes will allow us to capture the semantic features of the relevant argument or semantic participant of the base that semantically corresponds to the referential noun (cf. §§ 3, 3.1). In particular, I will isolate the conceptual- semantic (cf. §3.1.1), thematic (§3.2) and aspectual features (§3.3) of the heterogeneous class of result / referential nouns. I will finally conclude by speculating about the relation between polysemy effects in the simplex and in the complex lexicon domains (cf. §4) and advancing an explanatory hypothesis about the derivational pattern responsible for the event/result polysemy (cf. §5).

Note:

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.

Id prodotto:

56522

Handle IRIS:

11562/338756

depositato il:

13 marzo 2012

ultima modifica:

23 febbraio 2023

Citazione bibliografica:

Melloni, Chiara, Action nominals inside: Lexical-semantic issues The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks , ALEXIADOU A., RATHERT M. , MOUTON DE GRUYTER , 2010 , pp. 141-168

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