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The semantics of nominalizations: A study of decompositional semantics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The semantics of nominalizations: A study of decompositional semantics./
Author:	Mani, Inderjeet.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1997,
Description:	329 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International59-05A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9801230
ISBN:	9780591506938

The semantics of nominalizations: A study of decompositional semantics.
Mani, Inderjeet.

The semantics of nominalizations: A study of decompositional semantics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1997 - 329 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 1997.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

I explore a decompositional approach to meaning which allows one to represent the meanings of words in terms of simpler components. Is there a theory we can construct as to what these components are and how they get assembled together? I address this question by examining problems of polysemy in the semantics of nominalizations. I use a Davidsonian semantic framework, along with abstract individuals corresponding to individual correlates of sets. Decompositions are broadly conceived as functions invoked by various inferential modules in mapping between a particular representation of meaning and more elaborated or underspecified representations. The imbiguity between eventive versus propositional readings of nominalizations is accounted for in terms of decompositions which shift the meanings of nominalizations. The ambiguity between process and result readings of nominalizations exploits a decomposition of event structure. I hypothesize that in certain contexts ambiguities may not be distinguishable (by the set of predicates relevant to the context) and in such contexts ambiguities can be collapsed, by means of a summation operation over the hierarchy of individuals, to yield underspecified representations. In general, this leads to a theory of meaning where different inferential modules invoke particular decompositional functions, where the level of granularity associated with a module determines what meanings and ambiguities are inferred. This study of decomposition leads to a comparative analysis of decompositional theories of semantics. Here decompositions are formalized for the first time as abstractions, with a characterization of the requirements for an abstraction to preserve compositionality of meaning. The decompositions are tied to particular generalizations about verb classes; they are defined in such a way that they do not obscure differences in meaning at the expense of capturing similarities in meaning.

ISBN: 9780591506938Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The semantics of nominalizations: A study of decompositional semantics.
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