Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

ISBN-13: 9780415971003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 212 str.

Ren Zhang; Martin Gainsborough

Opis

Drawing insights from conceptual semantics, cognitive semantics, generative lexicon, construction grammar and formal syntax, this book is the first attempt at a comparative account of lexical semantic issues in Mandarin Chinese.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Variation in Argument Expression Chapter 2: Constructions, Conceptual Structures and Compositionality Chapter 3: The Eat Restaurant Construction: Licensing Unselected Complements Chapter 4: Conceptual Inference and Predicate Transfer Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks References Index

O autorze

Ren Zhang is a visiting professor in linguistics at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2002 from York University.