2 Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity
- 25 February 2010
- book chapter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
This chapter investigates the observed complementarity of manner and result as components of lexicalized verb meaning. We provide a precise characterization of these meaning components: results involve scalar changes, while manners involve nonscalar changes. We propose a verb may only lexicalize one type of change, giving rise to manner/result complementarity.This publication has 142 references indexed in Scilit:
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