Presentation 2011-02-04
The Main Determinants of Sentence Meaning : Verbs or Constructions?
Kensei SUGAYAMA,
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Abstract(in English) What types of linguistic information do people use to construct the meaning of a sentence? The purpose of this paper is to provide a plausible argument against CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES to grammar. The basic idea assumed in them is that the simple sentence types in English are directly correlated with one or more semantic structures. In this paper, I argue that there are motivations supporting the traditional view that the basic sentence patterns of a language are determined by semantic or syntactic information specified by the main verb. What I want to argue is that a PROJECTIONIST APPROACH is at least possible.
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Keyword(in English) Construction / Constructional Meaning / Projectionist approach / Frame Semantics
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Conference Date 2011/1/28(1days)
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Title (in English) The Main Determinants of Sentence Meaning : Verbs or Constructions?
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Keyword(1) Construction
Keyword(2) Constructional Meaning
Keyword(3) Projectionist approach
Keyword(4) Frame Semantics
1st Author's Name Kensei SUGAYAMA
1st Author's Affiliation School of Letters, Kyoto Prefectural University()
Date 2011-02-04
Paper # TL2010-52
Volume (vol) vol.110
Number (no) 407
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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