Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring

369 Pages·2008·2.36 MB·English

by  Juan Uriagereka

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SYNTACTIC ANCHORS
Oneofthemajorarenasfordebatewithingenerativegrammaristhenature
of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the
interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation
between structure and meaning, and analyses how it affects the internal
properties of words and corresponding syntactic manifestations. Adapting
notions from the Evo-Devo project in biology (the idea of ‘co-linearity’
between structural units and behavioural manifestations), Juan Uriagereka
addressesamajorpuzzle:howwordscanbebothdecomposablesoastobe
acquiredbychildren,andatomic,sothattheydonotmanifestthemselvesas
modular toadults.
juan uriagereka is Professor in the Linguistics Department at the
University of Maryland at College Park, USA. His previous publications
includeACourseinMinimalistSyntax(2005,withH.Lasnik)andDerivations
(2002).
In this series
72 LUIGI BURZIO:PrinciplesofEnglishstress
73 JOHN A. HAWKINS:Aperformancetheoryoforderandconstituency
74 ALICE C. HARRIS andLYLE CAMPBELL:Historicalsyntaxincross-linguistic
perspective
75 LILIANE HAEGEMAN:Thesyntaxofnegation
76 PAUL GORREL:Syntaxandparsing
77 GUGLIELMO CINQUE:Italiansyntaxanduniversalgrammar
78 HENRY SMITH:Restrictivenessincasetheory
79 D. ROBERT LADD:Intonationalmorphology
80 ANDREA MORO:Theraisingofpredicates:predicativenounphrasesandthetheory
ofclausestructure
81 ROGER LASS:Historicallinguisticsandlanguagechange
82 JOHN M. ANDERSON:Anotionaltheoryofsyntacticcategories
83 BERND HEINE:Possession:cognitivesources,forcesandgrammaticalization
84 NOMT ERTESCHIK-SHIR:Thedynamicsoffocusstructure
85 JOHN COLEMAN:Phonologicalrepresentations:theirnames,formsandpowers
86 CHRISTINA Y. BETHIN:Slavicprosody:languagechangeandphonologicaltheory
87 BARBARA DANCYGIER:Conditionalsandprediction
88 CLAIRE LEFEBVRE:Creolegenesisandtheacquisitionofgrammar:thecaseof
HaitianCreole
89 HEINZ GIEGERICH:LexicalstratainEnglish
90 KEREN RICE:Morphemeorderandsemanticscope
91 APRIL MCMAHON:LexicalphonologyandthehistoryofEnglish
92 MATTHEW Y. CHEN:Tonesandhi:patternsacrossChinesedialects
93 GREGORY T. STUMP:Inflectionalmorphology:atheoryofparadigmstructure
94 JOAN BYBEE:Phonologyandlanguageuse
95 LAURIE BAUER:Morphologicalproductivity
96 THOMAS ERNST:Thesyntaxofadjuncts
97 ELIZABETH CLOSS TRAUGOTT andRICHARD B. DASHER:Regularityinsemantic
change
98 MAYA HICKMANN:Children’sdiscourse:person,spaceandtimeacrosslanguages
99 DIANE BLAKEMORE:Relevanceandlinguisticmeaning:thesemanticsand
pragmaticsofdiscoursemarkers
100 IAN ROBERTS andANNA ROUSSOU:Syntacticchange:aminimalistapproachto
grammaticalization
101 DONKA MINKOVA:AlliterationandsoundchangeinearlyEnglish
102 MARK C. BAKER:Lexicalcategories:verbs,nounsandadjectives
103 CARLOTA S. SMITH:Modesofdiscourse:thelocalstructureoftexts
104 ROCHELLE LIEBER:Morphologyandlexicalsemantics
105 HOLGER DIESSEL:Theacquisitionofcomplexsentences
106 SHARON INKELAS andCHERYL ZOLL:Reduplication:doublinginmorphology
107 SUSAN EDWARDS:Fluentaphasia
108 BARBARA DANCYGIER andEVE SWEETSER: Mentalspacesingrammar:
conditionalconstructions
109 HEW BAERMAN,DUNSTAN BROWN andGREVILLE G. CORBETT:Thesyntax–
morphologyinterface:astudyofsyncretism
Serieslistcontinuedonpageafterindex
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
General editors: P. AUSTIN, J. BRESNAN, B. COMRIE, S. CRAIN,
W. DRESSLER, C. J. EWEN, R. LASS, D. LIGHTFOOT, K. RICE,
I. ROBERTS, S. ROMAINE, N. V. SMITH
Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring

SYNTACTIC ANCHORS
ON SEMANTIC STRUCTURING
JUAN URIAGEREKA
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‘Dad,whyareotherpeople’swordsokay,butwhenImakethemup
they sound funny?’
(Isabel Uriagereka Herburger, after discussing with her sister Sofia
the meaning of their Spanish neologism desalrevesar, lit.
‘unturnaround’.)
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