THE MAIN METHODS USED IN THE INTERPRETATION OF WORDS
THE MAIN METHODS USED IN THE INTERPRETATION OF WORDS
Author(s): Roxana Corina Sfetea, Ionela Guşatu, Cristina Veronica AndreescuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: structural semantics; transformational semantics; theta roles; generative lexicon
Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to illustrate the methods used by linguists in order to best describe the meaning of words. As we are going to see, several methods have been proposed, but only one managed to synthesize the information from its predecessors and to offer the best description of words. This is the generative lexicon and it comes with a novelty: the qualia structure. It presents four essential characteristics of the meaning of a word which help to explain why some phrases such as “bottle of wine” are accepted while others such as “bottle of shoes” are not.
Journal: Cogito - Multidisciplinary research Journal
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 99-107
- Page Count: 9
