Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items
The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2007
XII, 304 pages
978-90-272-9176-9 (ISBN)
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This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them. Introducing a conceptual system which allows gaps to be searched for systematically, this study shows which concepts of verbal communication are and which are not lexicalised in English, German and Dutch. The lexicalisation patterns observed shed light on the way in which verbal behaviour is conceptualised in a particular speech community. To complete the picture, the volume also addresses the question of whether communication concepts which may not be expressed by verbs may be lexicalised by fixed multiword expressions.
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The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch
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Content
- Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and typographical conventions
- Abbreviations
- Typographical conventions and symbols
- Corpora used
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Objectives
- 1.2 Some basic terminology
- 1.3 Structural outline
- 2. Ordering systems for concepts of communication
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 A review of ordering systems for concepts of communication
- 2.3 Conclusion
- 3. Lexical gaps
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Why study lexical gaps?
- 3.3 Previous accounts of lexical gaps
- 3.4 Defining lexical gaps
- 3.5 Detecting lexical gaps
- 3.6 Lexical gaps in the fields of speech act verbs and verbs of communication
- 3.7 Conclusion: Explanations for the occurrence of lexical gaps
- 4. Concepts of communication lexicalised by idioms and collocations
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The lexical status of complex lexicalisations
- 4.3 The lexicalisation properties of idioms and collocations: An empirical investigation
- 4.4 Idioms and collocations with one-word synonyms
- 4.5 Idioms and collocations lacking one-word synonyms
- 4.6 Complex communicative expressions in English, German and Dutch
- 4.7 Conclusion
- 5. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- appendix i
- appendix ii
- Subject/author index
- Index of verbs and phrasemes discussed
- Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
