Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis : the case of English look, see, seem and appear /

Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis : the case of English look, see, seem and appear /

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Author / Creator:	Sabar, Nadav, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Description:	xiii, 144 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), 1385-7916 ; volume 75 SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Subject:	Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) Functionalism (Linguistics) English language -- Semantics. English language -- Semantics. Functionalism (Linguistics) Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11616805

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ISBN:	9789027200426 9027200424
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 'have-a-look', 'look-like', etc. The analysis places look in opposition with 'see', 'seem' and 'appear' for which tentative meanings are posited as well. The hypotheses are supported through qualitative analyses of attested examples and quantitative predictions tested in a massive corpus. These predictions offer new knowledge about the distribution of 'look', 'see' and other forms that may provide useful for other scholars.
Other form:	Online version: Sabar, Nadav author. Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9789027264343

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