Jim Feist

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jim Feist is involved.

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Semantic Structure in English

Jim Feist

Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 73] 2016. xv, 452 pp. | open access

Articles

Feist, Jim 2013 Noun incorporation in English Functions of Language 20:2, pp. 159–184 | Article

The article discusses noun incorporation in English — that is, expressions which include a noun in the verbal constituent of an utterance, as in It’s time to legacy build contrasted with It’s time to build a legacy. It concludes that noun incorporation is well established in present-day English,… read more

Feist, Jim 2012 What controls the “genitive variation” in Present-Day English? Studies in Language 36:2, pp. 261–299 | Article

This paper takes up the recent discussion of what controls speakers’ use of the -s and of- genitives, as in the university’s budget and the budget of the university. Most of the paper deals directly with control of that “genitive variation”. It first argues that there is a third variant, as in the… read more