Predicates of Gratification in English and Polish

The monograph presents a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification. By exploring the syntactic realization and distribution of arguments opened by the predicates, the book demonstrates the asymmetry between the semantic and syntactic levels showing multidimensional relations between the predicate and its complements.

Autorentext

Katarzyna Góra holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Poland. She works as an assistant at the Institute of Linguistics at UWM. She is interested in the philosophy of language, lexical representation, semantics and linguistic research in autism spectrum disorders.

Inhalt

a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification a case study the predicate5 reward and its various forms in Polish and in English set in the framework of semantic syntax, the theory of valence and frame semantics based on data derived from a wide variety of sources from modern corpora addresses the phenomenon of the combinatoricity of human thought