This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning - hitherto found primarily in grammar - is equally operative in core vocabulary items like look and see. The upshot is that grammar and lexicon are both amenable to synchronic monosemic analysis. The invariant meaning proposed for look explains the full range of its distribution, without the need to posit as linguistic units `look-noun' and `look-verb', `look-visual' and `look-intellectual', or constructions such as...
This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of ...