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Lexical Semantics
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- 1What is USUAL MEANING?USUAL MEANING:
total representational content that is associated with a word for any member of a speech community (as described in dictionaries) - 2What is OCCASIONAL MEANING?OCCASIONAL MEANING:
the representational content that an interlocutor (the one who speaks) associates with a word when he uses it, and which he expects the hearer to associate with the word as well. - 3What are MORPHOSYNTACTIC PROMINENCE HIERARCHIES?Cases, grammatical functions (Subject, object...) and syntactic positions are ranked, so that some items are more prominent then others.
i.e. Nominativ is more prominent then accusative. - 4What is LEXICAL SEMANTIC PROMINENCE?Is also a kind of hierarchy.
i.e. agents have priority to subject position over instruments, which have priority over patients. - 5Explain PROMINENCE PRESERVATION.Connected to argument alternation, in which one ore more arguments of a verb has multiple encoding options
- 6Explain ARGUMENT / OBLIQUE ALTERNATION.One or more arguments in a clause alternate between:
direct ARGUMENT (subject, direct object, and indirect object)
and OBLIQUE realization. - 7What is a DIRECT ARGUMENT?A DIRECT ARGUMENT is one that has the subject, direct object, or indirect object grammatical function (as much as grammatical functions can be determined in a language) and/or structural case such as nominative, accusative, or structural dative
- 8What is an OBLIQUE ARGUMENT?An OBLIQUE ARGUMENT is one that has an oblique grammatical function and/or is marked by a non- structural case/adposition (including semantic dative) or both.
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- Grundbegriffe der lexical semantics
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- Michael Tewes
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