One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics

  • The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with functional application in meaning. In this book, we discuss linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules (morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem to the standard view, mapping out the potential for deviation from the ideal of one-to-one correspondences, and develop formal accounts of the range of phenomena. We argue that a constraint-based perspective is particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many correspondences, as it allows us to impose constraints on full structures (such as a complete word or the interpretation of a full sentence) instead of deriving such structures step by step. Most of the papers in this volume are formulated in a particular constraint-based grammar framework, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The contributions investigate how the lexical and constructional aspects of this theory can be combined to provide an answer to this question across different linguistic sub-theories.

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URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-751123
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4638824
ISBN:978-3-96110-307-2
Parent Title (English):Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax ; 7
Publisher:Language Science Press
Place of publication:Berlin
Editor:Berthold Crysmann, Manfred Sailer
Document Type:Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/03/26
Date of first Publication:2021/03/26
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/02/20
Page Number:294
HeBIS-PPN:516197819
Institutes:Neuere Philologien
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International