Meaning of words, meaning of sentences. Building the meaning of n-words
This article addresses the general question of what the meaning of words, namely nwords, is and how this meaning may contribute to the meaning of sentences. We hypothesize that this contribution is not conceptual, but it is fundamentally underspecified. An underspecified value can be attributed both...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:uabarcelona_::363886fab7b45b786e904ab6f8480262 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/327756 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Underspecified meaning Compositionality N-words Romance languages |
| Sumario: | This article addresses the general question of what the meaning of words, namely nwords, is and how this meaning may contribute to the meaning of sentences. We hypothesize that this contribution is not conceptual, but it is fundamentally underspecified. An underspecified value can be attributed both to an inherent semantic feature and to a syntactic feature with which a lexical root merges during the derivation. In the specific case of n-words, we postulate a semantic feature that guarantees their behavior as polarity items, and a syntactic feature that guarantees their occurrence in Negative Concord structures. The Principle of Compositionality is guaranteed by checking both semantic features and syntactically uninterpretable ones. |
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