
Artemis Alexiadou (ed.)
et al.
Published online:
22 January 2015
Published in print:
27 November 2014
Online ISBN:
9780191748554
Print ISBN:
9780199665266
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13.1 Introduction 13.1 Introduction
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13.1.1 Background hypotheses 13.1.1 Background hypotheses
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13.1.2 Two introductory examples 13.1.2 Two introductory examples
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13.1.3 Overview of the chapter 13.1.3 Overview of the chapter
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13.2 Syntactic structure and semantics construction 13.2 Syntactic structure and semantics construction
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13.2.1 Property roots are coerced to “manner” roots 13.2.1 Property roots are coerced to “manner” roots
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13.3 More of the same: Entity‐denoting roots are coerced to manner‐denoting roots 13.3 More of the same: Entity‐denoting roots are coerced to manner‐denoting roots
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13.4 Coercion of event denoting roots 13.4 Coercion of event denoting roots
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13.4.1 Event properties coerce to result state properties of individuals 13.4.1 Event properties coerce to result state properties of individuals
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13.4.2 Event type denotations shift to sortal denotations 13.4.2 Event type denotations shift to sortal denotations
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13.4.2.1 Shift to a sortal root of type event 13.4.2.1 Shift to a sortal root of type event
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4.2.2 Shift to sortal roots of non‐eventive type 4.2.2 Shift to sortal roots of non‐eventive type
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13.5 How common are unexpected contributions of roots? 13.5 How common are unexpected contributions of roots?
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13.5.1 Sortal roots functioning as manner roots 13.5.1 Sortal roots functioning as manner roots
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13.5.1.1 Reinterpretation of sortal roots as manner roots is not uncommon 13.5.1.1 Reinterpretation of sortal roots as manner roots is not uncommon
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13.5.1.2 Coercion of sortal roots to eventive roots is restricted 13.5.1.2 Coercion of sortal roots to eventive roots is restricted
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13.5.2 Roots denoting properties of individuals acting as eventive roots is very restricted 13.5.2 Roots denoting properties of individuals acting as eventive roots is very restricted
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13.5.2.1 The missing logically possible pairs 13.5.2.1 The missing logically possible pairs
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13.5.3 Coercion of manner denoting roots to resultant states denotation occurs often, but not normally 13.5.3 Coercion of manner denoting roots to resultant states denotation occurs often, but not normally
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13.6 Conclusion 13.6 Conclusion
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Chapter
13 When roots license and when they respect semantico‐syntactic structure in verbs
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Pages
282–309
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Published:November 2014
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Roßdeutscher, Antje, 'When roots license and when they respect semantico‐syntactic structure in verbs', in Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer, and Florian Schäfer (eds), The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax (Oxford , 2014; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Jan. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665266.003.0013, accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter investigates the contribution of roots to the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs. The principal question is: how can the semantics of verbs be constructed from their roots? The chapter constructs Discourse Representation Structures (DRS) from word-syntactic representation in the spirit of Distributed Morphology (DM). Roots can be considered to be events, stative properties, or entities: subtle differences show up when it comes to deciding how to implement the consequences of these three categories in a syntax-semantics interface.
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