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Semantic Structure and Word-formation

 

The verb-particle construction (in the following abbreviated as VPC) is here regarded as a class of lexical items which have a common morpho-syntactic surface structure. The present study aims to develop methods for the description of the underlying semantic structures. At the same time it attempts to describe the surface structure as thoroughly as possible. The results of the empirical investigation are also intended to provide data for theoretical considerations of semantic problems. These results, to be read in conjunction with the discussion in Chapter Two, are intended to throw some light on such questions as the Status of semantic features, the form of lexical entries, semantic tests, and the nature of idiomaticity and lexicalization. Certain candidates for universal semantic features are set up. Other general problems such as productivity, transitivity, object deletion, and object transfer are dealt with in detail. A combination is used of various methods which supplement each other but which also yield partly overlapping results. No single method can be applied to encompass the whole range of VPCs. The constructions are not treated as isolated lexical items but are always syntagmatically described by means of their collocations with nominals. They are regarded as representing predicates in the sense of symbolic logic and are analysed into semantic components.

This leads to the postulation of semantic formulas consisting of formators and designators.




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