Semantic variation and the notion of Functional-Conceptual Hierarchy
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v47i1.2011Keywords:
functional-conceptual hierarchy, semantic variation, prepositionsAbstract
Within Nanossintaxe, the variation in the syntactic-semantic behavior of distinct classes is explained by the fact that different languages would encode distinct parts of hierarchical functional sequences inside different lexical items. In turn, these sequences would be built from primitive concepts much finer grained than traditional syntactic categories and would approach a semantic-conceptual decomposition such as Jackendoff's (1983, 1990, 1997) proposal. For several authors (STARKE, 2010; CAHA, 2009; PANTECHVA, 2011), the question of variation would then be reduced to the difference in the size of the structures stored in different items of the lexicon. Therefore, this paper will present a discussion about the relevance of the application of the functional-conceptual hierarchy notion in the analysis of Brazilian Portuguese prepositions.Downloads
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