Productivity in Argument Selection : : From Morphology to Syntax / / Amir Zeldes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Zeldes, Amir,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 260
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; List of abbreviations and symbols --; List of tables --; List of figures --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. (Re-)defining productivity: From morphology to syntax --; Chapter 3. Morphological productivity measures --; Chapter 4. Adapting measures to the syntactic domain --; Chapter 5. Lexical semantics and world knowledge --; Chapter 6. Representation within a usage-based productivity grammar --; Chapter 7. Conclusion --; Appendices --; Author index --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110303919; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110288995; 9783110288902; 9783110288896
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110303919
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Amir Zeldes.

This book centers on the idea that some verbs and other argument structure constructions have an inherently different propensity to realize lexically unfamiliar arguments, independently of lexical semantic meaning. This notion is explored both qualitatively using selected examples, and quantitatively using large amounts of corpus data, in both cases primarily from English and German.