Words and the Grammar of Context / Edition 74

by Paul Kay

Overview

Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions. Students concerned with lexical fields and lexical domains ('lexical semanticists') have interested themselves in the paradigmatic relations of contrast that obtain among related lexical items and the substantive detail of how particular lexical items map to the nonlinguistic objects they stand for. 'Formal semanticists' (those who study the combinatorial properties of word meanings) have been mostly unconcerned with these issues, concentrating rather on how the meanings of individual words, whatever their internal structure may be and however they may be paradigmatically related to one another, combine into the meanings of phrases and sentences (and recently, to some extent, texts).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781881526186
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	06/01/1997
Series:	Lecture Notes , #40
Edition description:	74th ed.
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Paul Kay is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferred to the Department of Linguistics in 1982, and then became a Senior Researcher in artificial intelligence at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with Brent Berlin on color, first published in Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Foreword Charles J. Fillmore; 1. Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical construction; the case of let alone with Charles J. Fillmore and Mary Catherine O'Connor; 2. Even; 3. At least; 4. Construction grammar; 5. Linguistic competence and folk theories of language: two English hedges; 6. The kind of/sort of construction; 7. Contextual operators: respective, respectively, and vice versa; 8. Constructional modus tollens and level of conventionality; 9. Three properties of the ideal reader; 10. The inheritance of presuppostions; References.