Cooperation and coercion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3987176
AutoresJenny Audring (0000-0002-1254-1192, Leiden University, autor correspondente), Geert Booij (0000-0003-1197-0259, Leiden University)
Ano2016
Volume54
Fascículo4
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2016-0012
OpenAlexW2465447743
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas12

Coercion is a much-discussed topic in the linguistic literature. This article expands the usual range of cases at the most subtle and the extreme end: it demonstrates how coercion extends into semantic flexibility on the one hand and into idiomaticity on the other. After discussing a broad variety of coercion cases in syntax and morphology and briefly reviewing the equally diverse literature, we identify three mechanisms - selection, enrichment, and override - that have alternatively been proposed to account for coercion effects. We then present an approach that combines all three mechanisms, arguing that they can be unified along a single axis: the degree of top-down influence of complex structures on lexical semantics

Coercion (linguistics) · Cognitive science · Flexibility (engineering) · Linguistics · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Semantics (computer science) · Syntax · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation