Wanting, Having, and Getting
A Note on Fodor and Lepore 1998
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7913161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heidi Harley (0000-0002-3577-153X, University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255-267 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/002438904323019066 |
| OpenAlex | W2038428605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article takes up Fodor and Lepore's (1998) account of the meaning of [want DP]structures, according to which the verb to have is introduced at interpretation. With certain DP complements a want to have DP paraphrase of want DP is ill formed; the correct paraphrase uses get or give. To allow for this, F&L would have to vary the introduced verb depending on the meaning of the DP, but this would make their proposal “co-compositional,” defeating its original purpose. If have, get, and give all contain the abstract preposition P HAVE (Harley 1995, Richards 2001), however, F&L's treatment may be appropriately revised: the element introduced by want is not have but P HAVE . F&L can avoid co-compositionality at the price of allowing lexical decomposition
Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Paraphrase · Principle of compositionality · Verb · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Double Objects Again
The Emptiness of the Lexicon
Existentials and Other Locatives
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| Citations per year | 0.77 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |