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Department
Stanford
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Stanford
Humanities Center
Mellon
Foundation
Graduate
Research Workshop Program
Stanford
Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop:
THE
CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING
Thursday, October 23, 5:30 in 160-321 (Wallenberg Hall):
The curious case of girl-swimming: morphology, lexical semantics and
the interpretation of compounds
Rochelle Lieber (University of New Hampshire)
In this talk I will offer an analysis of compound interpretation for both
root and synthetic compounds in English. Such analyses in the past have
generally been couched in terms of syntax or argument structure, but I
will offer an analysis in terms of lexical semantic representations based
on the framework developed in my forthcoming book Morphology and
Lexical Semantics (Cambridge University Press, May 2004). In doing
so, I will expand the range of data for which such analyses must be
responsible, challenging the `facts' that have become part of the
repertoire of such analyses, specifically that it is never possible for
the first stem in a compound to receive a subject interpretation.
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if you have suggestions for presentations or the workshop in general.
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This workshop is sponsored by
the Stanford Humanities Center, and funded by a grant from the Mellon
Foundation.
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