With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts

With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts
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Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 9783869563299
ISBN-13 : 386956329X
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Book Synopsis With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts by : Wittenberg, Eva

Download or read book With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts written by Wittenberg, Eva and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation uses a common grammatical phenomenon, light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and German, to investigate how syntax-semantics mapping defaults influence the relationships between language processing, representation and conceptualization. LVCs are analyzed as a phenomenon of mismatch in the argument structure. The processing implication of this mismatch are experimentally investigated, using ERPs and a dual task. Data from these experiments point to an increase in working memory. Representational questions are investigated using structural priming. Data from this study suggest that while the syntax of LVCs is not different from other structures’, the semantics and mapping are represented differently. This hypothesis is tested with a new categorization paradigm, which reveals that the conceptual structure that LVC evoke differ in interesting, and predictable, ways from non-mismatching structures’.


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