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The Roots of Verbal Meaning

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly of an event structure, made up of an event template describing the verb's broad temporal and causal contours that oc...

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Main Author: Beavers , John (auth)
Other Authors: Koontz-Garboden, Andrew (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2020
Series:Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 74
Subjects:
Semantics & pragmatics
Grammar, syntax & morphology
lexical semantics
lexical decomposition
event structure
root
ditransitive verb
change-of-state verb
manner
result
sublexical modifier
scale
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