Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the theory of Conceptual Semantics...
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Part 1 Basic machinery: overview of conceptual semantics; argument structure and thematic roles; multiple thematic roles for a single NP; unifying lexical entries. Part 2 Mostly on the problem of meaning: some further conceptual functions; some featural elaborations of spatial functions; the action tier and the analysis of causation. Part 3 Mostly on the problem of correspondence: adjuncts that express an incorporated argument; adjuncts that express an argument of a modifying conceptual clause; adjuncts that express arguments of a superordinate conceptual clause; toward a theory of linking. Epilogue: compositionality, autonomy, modularity.
