?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Lexical+pragmatics+and+types+of+linguistic+encoding%3A+evidence+from%0Apre-+and+postpositions+in+Behdini-Kurdish&rft.creator=Unger%2C+Christoph&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=Lexical+pragmatics+starts+from+the+assumption+that+the+meaning+communicated%0Aby+a+word+is+underdetermined+by+its+semantics%2C+and+lexical+pragmatists%0Ausually+study+the+processes+involved+in+bridging+the+gap+between+the%0Aencoded+and+the+communicated+meaning+of+words.+This+paper+studies%0Aa+different+but+related+question%3A+wether+different+types+of+linguistic%0Aencoding+can+play+empirically+distinguishable+roles+in+lexical+pragmatics.%0ACarston+(2002)+suggests+that+some+words+may+encode+templates+for+concept%0Aformation+whereas+others+encode+fully-fledged+concepts+that+provide%0Ainputs+to+pragmatic+processes.+Blakemore+(1987)+argued+that+some+words%0Aencode+constraints+on+inferential+processes+rather+than+concepts.%0ABut+if+some+words+might+encode+nothing+more+than+concept-formation%0Atemplates%2C+and+others+procedural+constraints%2C+then+both+types+of+words%0Aappear+to+be+highly+context+dependent+and+their+linguistic+semantics%0Arather+abstract+in+nature.+Is+it+possible+to+distinguish+these+different%0Atypes+of+encoding+empirically%3F+In+this+paper+I+want+to+argue+that%0Athe+answer+to+this+question+is+positive.+In+Behdini-Kurdish%2C+there%0Ais+a+class+of+four+fundamental+prepositions+*di*+'in'%2C+*li*%0A'at'%2C+*ji*+'from'%2C+*bi*+'with'.+Furthermore%2C+there+is+a%0Alarger+class+of+simple+prepositions+such+as+*ser*+'on'%2C+*nav*%0A'within'%2C+*ber*+'in+front'.+These+simple+prepositions+can+be%0Aadded+to+one+of+the+fundamental+prepositions+to+form+compound+ones%3A%0A*diser*+'on+top+of'%2C+*dinav*+'inside'%2C+*diber*+'in%0Afront+of%2C+in+sight+of'.+Any+fundamental%2C+simple+or+compound+preposition%0Acan+be+used+together+with+one+of+three+postpositions+*da*%2C+*ra*%0Aand+*ve*.+Postpositions+are+morphologically+and+syntactically%0Asimple%2C+in+contrast+to+prepositions.+Though+overlapping+in+meaning%0Awith+prepositions%2C+they+are+not+redundant.+Fundamental+prepositions%0Ahave+a+wider+range+of+meaning+than+simple+prepositions+and+compound%0Aprepositions.+Finally%2C+there+are+grammaticalisation+paths+from+nouns%0Athrough+compound+preposition+to+simple+prepositions%2C+but+none+involving%0Athe+postpositions.+My+thesis+is+that+these+properties+of+the+Behdini-Kurdish%0Asystem+of+pre-and+postpositions+can+be+explained+on+the+assumptions%0Athat+the+class+of+fundamental+prepositions+encodes+templates+for+ad-hoc%0Aconcept+construction%2C+the+class+of+simple+prepositions+encodes+concepts%0Athat+allow+the+construction+of+ad-hoc+concepts%2C+and+that+the+class%0Aof+postpositions+encode+procedures+constraining+ad-hoc+concept+construction.%0AThis+thesis+gets+additional+support+from+German+prepositional+phrases.%0AI+conclude+that+the+different+types+of+linguistic+encoding+discussed%0Ado+indeed+lead+to+distinct+effects+in+lexical+pragmatics+and+are+therefore%0Aempirically+distinguishable.+Thus%2C+while+there+is+reason+to+think%0Athat+a+unified+account+of+the+pragmatic+processes+involved+in+lexical%0Apragmatics+is+possible+(Wilson%2C+to+appear)%2C+the+different%0Atypes+of+inputs+to+these+processes+need+to+be+recognised.+&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5465%2F1%2Flexprag_pre_post_04a.pdf&rft.identifier=++Unger%2C+Christoph++(2005)+Lexical+pragmatics+and+types+of+linguistic+encoding%3A+evidence+from+pre-+and+postpositions+in+Behdini-Kurdish.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5465%2F