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Thematic Relations - A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Thematic Relations - A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations
by exploring the relation between language and cognition. It
analyzes the relation between grammatically defined roles such as
agent and patient (semantic roles), and elaborate thematic
relations (ETRs) actually accessible to language users. It shows
that many phenomena previously analyzed as grammatical can be
described in a more simple and convenient way by postulating direct
connection between syntactic complements and cognitive relations
present in the schema evoked by the verb. The volume focuses on a
topic which has been the object of much discussion in the recent
literature, namely the definition and delimitation of semantic
roles, proposing new solutions to some important theoretical and
practical problems in the description of the lexicogrammatical
structure of languages, and in particular of verb valency. It shows
that in many cases a direct relation can be established between
morphosyntactic units and functions, on one hand, and ETRs, on the
other, without the intermediation of grammatically defined semantic
roles. This makes it possible to analyze thematic relations that
have been traditionally problematic, such as the patient, in a
linguistically simple and cognitively well-motivated way. Thematic
Relations - A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface will be a
useful resource for practicing linguists working on the analysis of
natural languages, in particular on verb valency; verb
subcategorization and thematic structure; semantic (thematic)
roles, their definition and syntactic coding; the relation between
grammatical structure and cognitive schemata (frames); and the
structure of the lexicon.
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