A Theory of Predicates Paperback
by Farrell Ackerman, Gert Webelhuth
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Lexicalism is a theory of information associated with words and what exactly a word is.
The authors propose a different idea of what can be contained in words.
Lexicalism is first and foremost a hypothesis about functional-semantic information and secondly a hypothesis about the formal expression of this information.
Grammar rules cannot change the argument structure of words.
Any change to the meaning of words must occur in the lexicon.
A new lexical theory of complex predicates is proposed in this volume.
The authors argue that previous lexicalist accounts within Lexical Functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar have abandoned certain crucial aspects of lexicalism in their efforts to account for analytically-expressed predicates, in particular permitting predicate-formation operations to occur within phrase structure.
Although the theory is presented in detail primarily for German expressions of these predicates, consideration is given to cross-linguistic application of this theory.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:416 pages, illustrations
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- Publication Date:01/06/1997
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- ISBN:9781575860862