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SUMMARY:Words and Roots – Polysemy and Allosemy
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LOCATION:Niels Henrik Abels vei 36\, \, Oslo\, Norway\, 0313
DESCRIPTION:<p>Polysemy is cross-categorial\, so the linguistic unit ultimately underpinning polysemy is not the word but the categoryless root of related words\, e.g. the root &radic\;stone common to the three homophonous words (noun\, verb and adjective) &lsquo\;stone&rsquo\;\, whose meanings are semantically-pragmatically interrelated.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;In some current root-based approaches to morpho-syntax (Marantz 2013\, Harley 2014\, Embick 2015)\, it is proposed that roots themselves are polysemous\, albeit with meanings that are realized only in specific grammatical contexts (a phenomenon known as&nbsp\;<em>allosemy</em>\, parallel to allomorphy on the phonological side). In this talk\, taking the polysemy of words as established\, I assess the notion of allosemy and conclude that there is very little evidence for its existence\, and that roots themselves are (most likely) meaningless\, with atomic meanings (or &lsquo\;Content&rsquo\;) mapped to categorized linguistic structures of varying complexity (Borer 2013\, 2014)\, that meaning being typically pragmatic in origin (Carston 2022\, 2024).&nbsp\;</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicholas Allott;CN=Terje Lohndal;CN=Ingrid Lossius Falkum:
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