Words and the Grammar of Context

by Paul Kay

Overview

Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions. Lexical semanticists are interested in the paradigmatic relations of contrast among related lexical items whereas formal semanticists concentrate on meanings of individual words, no matter what their internal structure may be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575869742
Publisher:	CSLI
Publication date:	01/15/2017
Series:	Lecture Notes , #40
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	281
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Paul Kay is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferred to the Department of Linguistics in 1982, and then became a Senior Researcher in artificial intelligence at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with Brent Berlin on color, first published in Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Charles J. Fillmore 1. Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical construction the case of let alone with Charles J. Fillmore and Mary Catherine O'Connor 2. Even 3. At least 4. Construction grammar 5. Linguistic competence and folk theories of language: two English hedges 6. The kind of/sort of construction 7. Contextual operators: respective, respectively, and vice versa 8. Constructional modus tollens and level of conventionality 9. Three properties of the ideal reader 10. The inheritance of presuppostions References.