Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 777953 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Koontz-Garboden |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Koontz-Garboden |
| ASSINATURA | KOONTZ-GARBODEN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester, Dept. of Linguistics & English Language, [email protected] |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Variation in the lexical semantics of property concept roots
Whether the lexical semantics of property concepts (words canonically expressed as adjectives in languages with that category; Dixon 1982, Thompson 1989) show variation is a matter of recent debate. At one end of the analytical spectrum, Francez & Koontz-Garboden (2017) contend that their meanings may vary in a way revealed by superficial morphosyntactic behavior. At the other end, Menon & Pancheva (2014) argue that they are universally built on …
From state to change of state by type-shift
This paper proposes a type-shifting analysis of state/change-of-state lability (Koontz-Garboden et al. in Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages, Ms., 2023): in languages with no overt inchoative morphology, a type-shifting operation, which we dub Inchoative Shift, introduces inchoative semantics where type mismatches would otherwise occur. In combination with a Blocking Principle, drawing on Chierchia's (Natural Language Se…
Possession in Categorization across Language and Category
Menon & Pancheva (2014) conjecture that the roots of all property concepts (words expressing the semantic content of adjectives in English; Dixon 1982, Thompson 1989), independent of syntactic category, have an abstract mass noun semantics in the spirit of Francez & Koontz-Garboden (2015, 2017). According to this conjecture, variation in the morphosemantics of categorization masks this underlying universality, leading to superficial variation in …
States and changes-of-state
What are the basic building blocks of verb meanings, how are they composed into more complex meanings, and how does this explain the grammatical properties of verbs and their relationships to other words with related meanings? These questions are fundamental to the study of verb meaning, and some of the most fruitful attempts to answer them have come from event-structural theories, wherein verb meanings are assumed to be decomposed into an event …
States and changes of state
[Download PDF file] Supplemental materials on alternative statistical treatments This PDF file outlines the alternative statistical treatments to those applied to the typological data set in the main article. This includes the same statistical tests as used in the article but including hypotheticalized data points, as well as Monte Carlo simulations for those tests with and without hypotheticals to show that the procedure of randomly selecting sy…
States and changes of state
What are the basic building blocks of verb meanings, how are they composed into more complex meanings, and how does this explain the grammatical properties of verbs and their relationships to other words with related meanings? These questions are fundamental to the study of verb meaning, and some of the most fruitful attempts to answer them have come from event-structural theories, wherein verb meanings are assumed to be decomposed into an event …
Meaning and category
Taking the Lexical Semantic Variation Hypothesis and the well-known fact that property concept lexemes vary in lexical category as the points of departure, it is considered whether there is any correlation between the meaning of a property concept lexeme and its lexical category. A novel observation is made about a lexical gap: while nouns across languages can denote qualities as well as sets of individuals, adjectives can never denote qualities.…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter highlighting outstanding issues related to its main topics, among these the notion of translational equivalence; the uniformity/transparency debate in the explanation of morphosyntactic variation; the lexical semantics of lexical categories; and the nature of mass nouns. The book closes by situating the main issues against the broader issues of key import in the field, particularly the issue of linguistic diversity, and th…
Quality nouns and other mass nouns
This chapter considers the relation between qualities and masses, showing that the order-theoretic difference here posited between them—qualities are ordered by a preorder called size and a mereological partial order, whereas masses are only ordered by the latter—explains a range of interpretational and distributional contrasts between quality and mass-denoting nouns in various languages, in contexts such as exclamatives and count quantifiers. Th…
The locus of variation in property concept sentences
This chapter contrasts the uniformity and transparency approaches to explaining variation in the domain of property concept sentences, examining their respective predictions with case studies from Ulwa and Malayalam. Two ways of spelling out a uniformity-based analysis are exemplified, and contrasted with the transparency-based Lexical Semantic Variation Hypothesis, which is argued to be superior on empirical and theoretical grounds. The broader …
Variation in the form of property concept sentences
This chapter demarcates the empirical scope of the book, defining the key notions of property concept sentence and property concept lexeme, showing that property concept sentences vary in whether they invoke the morphosyntax of canonical predication or the morphosyntax of possession. We consider, at a descriptive level, how the nature of the property concept lexeme in a property concept sentence is tied to this variation. Facts from several langu…
The lexical semantic variation hypothesis
This chapter lays out the main hypothesis about variation in the form of property concept sentences explored in the book—the Lexical Semantic Variation Hypothesis—and introduces the semantics of qualities that underlies the analyses developed in the rest of the book. The hypothesis is that property concept lexemes can have two different kinds of denotation: sets of individuals or qualities. Building on the observation that quality-denoting proper…
Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation
Systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages is a key explanandum of linguistic theory. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical semantics in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (1) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and morphosyntactic variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (…
Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
In this article we consider the nature of ‘result verbs’, typically defined as verbs describing scalar changes, which have played a significant role in the literature on verb typologies, event structures, and theories of (im)possible word meanings. We argue that the entailment of scalar change and the entailment of a new result state should not be wholly conflated. Rather, various previously proposed diagnostics for scalar change actually pick ou…
A note on possession and mereology in Ulwa property concept constructions
Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua) shows a puzzling and unique pattern in which a single affix marks the head of a possessive noun phrase and appears on roots expressing property concepts. This pattern has been argued to be semantically motivated by Koontz-Garboden and Francez (2010). This paper discusses two constructions of Ulwa that do not receive a natural treatment in their analysis, potentially casting doubt on the plausibility of a semantic moti…
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
This article discusses the effects of variation in the meaning of property concept (PC) lexemes (Dixon 1982) on the form of predicative and comparative constructions. We demonstrate the existence of two kinds of PC lexeme, which differ systematically in how they participate in constructions expressing the truth conditions of PC predication. The first kind of lexeme is used in canonical predicative constructions, the other in predicative construct…
In defense of the reflexivization analysis of anticausativization
Complications in diagnosing lexical meaning
The universality of lexical categories
Manner and Result in the Roots of Verbal Meaning
Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2010) argue that verbs fall into (at least) two classes: result verbs (e.g., break) and manner verbs (e.g., run). No verb encodes both manner and result simultaneously, a truth-conditional fact that Rappaport Hovav and Levin argue follows from how verb meanings are composed at the level of event structure. However, a key issue in verifying this claim is isolating truth-conditional diagnostics for manner and result. We d…
Possessed properties in Ulwa
Anticausativization
Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa
This article lays out the morphosyntactic and semantic facts of existential and locative constructions in Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua). Locative constructions come in two types-those that take one of a small set of posture predicates, and those that are completely bare, having only a figure and locative (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate. The posture predicates constitute a distinct syntactic category. Among the posture predicates, 'sit'…
Aspectual coercion and the typology of change of state predicates
The point of departure of this paper is the consideration of how words with the meanings of property concept states (states that are lexicalized as adjectives in languages that have that lexical category, cf. Dixon 1982), e.g. ‘red’, are related to words denoting their corresponding change of state, e.g. ‘redden’. It is shown that while many languages relate words with these meanings to one another via some morpholexical process, this is not so i…
The States in Changes of State
Anticausativization
Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation
Systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages is a key explanandum of linguistic theory. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical semantics in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (1) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and morphosyntactic variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (…
Manner and Result in the Roots of Verbal Meaning
Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2010) argue that verbs fall into (at least) two classes: result verbs (e.g., break) and manner verbs (e.g., run). No verb encodes both manner and result simultaneously, a truth-conditional fact that Rappaport Hovav and Levin argue follows from how verb meanings are composed at the level of event structure. However, a key issue in verifying this claim is isolating truth-conditional diagnostics for manner and result. We d…
Aspectual coercion and the typology of change of state predicates
The point of departure of this paper is the consideration of how words with the meanings of property concept states (states that are lexicalized as adjectives in languages that have that lexical category, cf. Dixon 1982), e.g. ‘red’, are related to words denoting their corresponding change of state, e.g. ‘redden’. It is shown that while many languages relate words with these meanings to one another via some morpholexical process, this is not so i…
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
This article discusses the effects of variation in the meaning of property concept (PC) lexemes (Dixon 1982) on the form of predicative and comparative constructions. We demonstrate the existence of two kinds of PC lexeme, which differ systematically in how they participate in constructions expressing the truth conditions of PC predication. The first kind of lexeme is used in canonical predicative constructions, the other in predicative construct…
States and changes of state
What are the basic building blocks of verb meanings, how are they composed into more complex meanings, and how does this explain the grammatical properties of verbs and their relationships to other words with related meanings? These questions are fundamental to the study of verb meaning, and some of the most fruitful attempts to answer them have come from event-structural theories, wherein verb meanings are assumed to be decomposed into an event …
In defense of the reflexivization analysis of anticausativization
Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
In this article we consider the nature of ‘result verbs’, typically defined as verbs describing scalar changes, which have played a significant role in the literature on verb typologies, event structures, and theories of (im)possible word meanings. We argue that the entailment of scalar change and the entailment of a new result state should not be wholly conflated. Rather, various previously proposed diagnostics for scalar change actually pick ou…
Complications in diagnosing lexical meaning
Possessed properties in Ulwa
A note on possession and mereology in Ulwa property concept constructions
Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua) shows a puzzling and unique pattern in which a single affix marks the head of a possessive noun phrase and appears on roots expressing property concepts. This pattern has been argued to be semantically motivated by Koontz-Garboden and Francez (2010). This paper discusses two constructions of Ulwa that do not receive a natural treatment in their analysis, potentially casting doubt on the plausibility of a semantic moti…
Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa
This article lays out the morphosyntactic and semantic facts of existential and locative constructions in Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua). Locative constructions come in two types-those that take one of a small set of posture predicates, and those that are completely bare, having only a figure and locative (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate. The posture predicates constitute a distinct syntactic category. Among the posture predicates, 'sit'…
A Universal Pronoun in English
July 01 2006 A Universal Pronoun in English? In Special Collection: CogNet John Beavers, John Beavers Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Andrew Koontz-Garboden Andrew Koontz-Garboden Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Beavers Stanford University Andrew Koontz-Garboden Stanford University Online ISSN: 1530-915…
Possession in Categorization across Language and Category
Menon & Pancheva (2014) conjecture that the roots of all property concepts (words expressing the semantic content of adjectives in English; Dixon 1982, Thompson 1989), independent of syntactic category, have an abstract mass noun semantics in the spirit of Francez & Koontz-Garboden (2015, 2017). According to this conjecture, variation in the morphosemantics of categorization masks this underlying universality, leading to superficial variation in …
Language contact and Spanish aspectual expression
Language contact and Spanish aspectual expression
On the typology of state/change of state alternations
The States in Changes of State
A Universal Pronoun in English
July 01 2006 A Universal Pronoun in English? In Special Collection: CogNet John Beavers, John Beavers Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Andrew Koontz-Garboden Andrew Koontz-Garboden Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Beavers Stanford University Andrew Koontz-Garboden Stanford University Online ISSN: 1530-915…
Aspectual coercion and the typology of change of state predicates
The point of departure of this paper is the consideration of how words with the meanings of property concept states (states that are lexicalized as adjectives in languages that have that lexical category, cf. Dixon 1982), e.g. ‘red’, are related to words denoting their corresponding change of state, e.g. ‘redden’. It is shown that while many languages relate words with these meanings to one another via some morpholexical process, this is not so i…
Anticausativization
Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa
This article lays out the morphosyntactic and semantic facts of existential and locative constructions in Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua). Locative constructions come in two types-those that take one of a small set of posture predicates, and those that are completely bare, having only a figure and locative (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate. The posture predicates constitute a distinct syntactic category. Among the posture predicates, 'sit'…
Possessed properties in Ulwa
The universality of lexical categories
Manner and Result in the Roots of Verbal Meaning
Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2010) argue that verbs fall into (at least) two classes: result verbs (e.g., break) and manner verbs (e.g., run). No verb encodes both manner and result simultaneously, a truth-conditional fact that Rappaport Hovav and Levin argue follows from how verb meanings are composed at the level of event structure. However, a key issue in verifying this claim is isolating truth-conditional diagnostics for manner and result. We d…
In defense of the reflexivization analysis of anticausativization
Complications in diagnosing lexical meaning
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
This article discusses the effects of variation in the meaning of property concept (PC) lexemes (Dixon 1982) on the form of predicative and comparative constructions. We demonstrate the existence of two kinds of PC lexeme, which differ systematically in how they participate in constructions expressing the truth conditions of PC predication. The first kind of lexeme is used in canonical predicative constructions, the other in predicative construct…
A note on possession and mereology in Ulwa property concept constructions
Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua) shows a puzzling and unique pattern in which a single affix marks the head of a possessive noun phrase and appears on roots expressing property concepts. This pattern has been argued to be semantically motivated by Koontz-Garboden and Francez (2010). This paper discusses two constructions of Ulwa that do not receive a natural treatment in their analysis, potentially casting doubt on the plausibility of a semantic moti…
Meaning and category
Taking the Lexical Semantic Variation Hypothesis and the well-known fact that property concept lexemes vary in lexical category as the points of departure, it is considered whether there is any correlation between the meaning of a property concept lexeme and its lexical category. A novel observation is made about a lexical gap: while nouns across languages can denote qualities as well as sets of individuals, adjectives can never denote qualities.…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter highlighting outstanding issues related to its main topics, among these the notion of translational equivalence; the uniformity/transparency debate in the explanation of morphosyntactic variation; the lexical semantics of lexical categories; and the nature of mass nouns. The book closes by situating the main issues against the broader issues of key import in the field, particularly the issue of linguistic diversity, and th…
Quality nouns and other mass nouns
This chapter considers the relation between qualities and masses, showing that the order-theoretic difference here posited between them—qualities are ordered by a preorder called size and a mereological partial order, whereas masses are only ordered by the latter—explains a range of interpretational and distributional contrasts between quality and mass-denoting nouns in various languages, in contexts such as exclamatives and count quantifiers. Th…
The locus of variation in property concept sentences
This chapter contrasts the uniformity and transparency approaches to explaining variation in the domain of property concept sentences, examining their respective predictions with case studies from Ulwa and Malayalam. Two ways of spelling out a uniformity-based analysis are exemplified, and contrasted with the transparency-based Lexical Semantic Variation Hypothesis, which is argued to be superior on empirical and theoretical grounds. The broader …
Variation in the form of property concept sentences
This chapter demarcates the empirical scope of the book, defining the key notions of property concept sentence and property concept lexeme, showing that property concept sentences vary in whether they invoke the morphosyntax of canonical predication or the morphosyntax of possession. We consider, at a descriptive level, how the nature of the property concept lexeme in a property concept sentence is tied to this variation. Facts from several langu…
The lexical semantic variation hypothesis
This chapter lays out the main hypothesis about variation in the form of property concept sentences explored in the book—the Lexical Semantic Variation Hypothesis—and introduces the semantics of qualities that underlies the analyses developed in the rest of the book. The hypothesis is that property concept lexemes can have two different kinds of denotation: sets of individuals or qualities. Building on the observation that quality-denoting proper…
Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation
Systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages is a key explanandum of linguistic theory. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical semantics in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (1) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and morphosyntactic variation arises from idiosyncratic differences in the inventory and phonological shape of language-particular functional material, and (…
Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
In this article we consider the nature of ‘result verbs’, typically defined as verbs describing scalar changes, which have played a significant role in the literature on verb typologies, event structures, and theories of (im)possible word meanings. We argue that the entailment of scalar change and the entailment of a new result state should not be wholly conflated. Rather, various previously proposed diagnostics for scalar change actually pick ou…
States and changes-of-state
What are the basic building blocks of verb meanings, how are they composed into more complex meanings, and how does this explain the grammatical properties of verbs and their relationships to other words with related meanings? These questions are fundamental to the study of verb meaning, and some of the most fruitful attempts to answer them have come from event-structural theories, wherein verb meanings are assumed to be decomposed into an event …
States and changes of state
[Download PDF file] Supplemental materials on alternative statistical treatments This PDF file outlines the alternative statistical treatments to those applied to the typological data set in the main article. This includes the same statistical tests as used in the article but including hypotheticalized data points, as well as Monte Carlo simulations for those tests with and without hypotheticals to show that the procedure of randomly selecting sy…
States and changes of state
What are the basic building blocks of verb meanings, how are they composed into more complex meanings, and how does this explain the grammatical properties of verbs and their relationships to other words with related meanings? These questions are fundamental to the study of verb meaning, and some of the most fruitful attempts to answer them have come from event-structural theories, wherein verb meanings are assumed to be decomposed into an event …
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