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A Note On 'Pedir' And Control In Spanish, Robert Stainton
A Note On 'Pedir' And Control In Spanish, Robert Stainton
Philosophy Publications
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Hold As A Monosemic Verb, Amy D. Camp
Hold As A Monosemic Verb, Amy D. Camp
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The verb hold is normally presumed to be highly polysemous; dictionaries ascribe to it several senses and sub-senses. This treatment is supported by the polysemous bias in current semantic research. In this thesis, I claim that hold is monosemic, with ascribed meanings resulting from pragmatic modulation. My treatment of hold is based on Charles Ruhl's work with monosemy in his book On Monosemy: A Study in Linguistic Semantics.
This study isolates hold's constant semantic contribution throughout 250 diverse example sentences. I claim that hold: (1) presupposes a sequence, and then (2) suspends the sequence.
After an introduction and a chapter …