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Nouns and the Morphosyntax / Semantics Interface

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This edited book seeks to bridge a gap in the existing literature on nouns, by exploring the exact relationship between their formal and semantic characteristics. The introductory chapter offers a thorough state of the art on the morphosyntactic and semantic angles in definitions of nouns, provides evidence of misalignments between morphosyntactic and semantic features, and argues that a multi-criterial angle is in fact inherent in the definition of the class of nouns. The following chapters bring together a representative cross-section of international-level research on the morphosyntax/semantics interface for nouns, covering a wide variety of languages from French-based creoles, German and Japanese to English, French, Italian, Russian and Uzbek. The focus of the volume is to take a special focus on the currently underestimated dynamic interplay between morphosyntax and semantics, at both language and discourse levels. It will be of interest primarily to academics (specialists of nouns, as well as anyone interested in the interplay between morphology, syntax and semantics) and graduate students in areas such as syntax, semantics, morphology, theoretical linguistics and discourse analysis. 

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ISBN13:9783031445637
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<p>Ch. 1&nbsp;– Laure Gardelle, Elise Mignot & Julie Neveux, “Why the morphosyntax / semantics interface matters for nouns”.- Part 1 – Combining syntax and semantics for new insights into the definition of nouns.- Ch. 2&nbsp;– Paolo Acquaviva, “Nouns, names, and abstract kinds”.- Ch. 3&nbsp;– Manon Philippe, “Proper names and the ‘noun’ / ‘name’ categories: pseudo-nouns, real names”.- Ch. 4&nbsp;– Yayoi Nakamura-Delloye, “The noun class in Japanese: Morphosyntactic and semantic properties”.- Ch. 5&nbsp;– Peter Lauwers, “Conversion vs coercion in the nominal field: two phenomena at the lexis-grammar interface”.- Part 2 – Interactions between the interpretation of nouns and their syntactic and semantic environment.- Ch. 6&nbsp;– Wiltrud Mihatsch & Désirée Kleineberg, “The interaction of morphosyntax and semantics in Romance object mass nouns”.- Ch. 7&nbsp;– Evelien Keizer & Elnora ten Wolde, “Of&nbsp;birds of prey&nbsp;and&nbsp;men of honour: head-classifier constructions in English”.- Ch. 8&nbsp;– Laure Gardelle, “A swarm of helicopters, the last couple of weeks: a constructional analysis of the syntax/semantics interface for the classification of N1 as ‘collective’ or ‘quantificational’”.- Ch. 9&nbsp;– Anne Jugnet & Philip Miller, “Polar nouns and Polar Concealed Questions”.- Ch. 10&nbsp;– Olivia Reneaud-Jensen & Elise Mignot, “God, it’s amazing the&nbsp;junk&nbsp;people will buy!&nbsp;When&nbsp;a construction&nbsp;impacts lexical choices: The case of nouns in concealed exclamations”.- Part 3 - Nouns as syntactic and semantic organisers at phrase and discourse level.- Ch. 11&nbsp;– Jan Rijkhoff, “Nouns and Iconicity of Distance: when syntactic proximity to the noun mirrors semantic closeness”.- Ch. 12&nbsp;– John Flowerdew, “Resumptive post-modification as a cohesive feature of signalling nouns”.- Ch. 13&nbsp;– Marie Turlais, “Influence of the headnoun and integration of the dependent in near-compound nominals such as&nbsp;high executive”.- Part 4 - Alignments and mismatches between morphology and lexical or contextual semantics.- Ch. 14&nbsp;– Laurie Bauer, “The semantics of English nominalizations: How much is usage?”.- Ch. 15&nbsp;– Julie Neveux, “From productive -ness&nbsp;word-formation to creative suffix -iness: the case of&nbsp;truthiness”.- Ch. 16&nbsp;– Chris A. Smith, “How is&nbsp;stickage&nbsp;different from&nbsp;sticking? A study of the semantic behaviour of V-age&nbsp;and V-ing&nbsp;nominalisations (on monomorphemic bases)”.</p>

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