A theory of predicates
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A theory of predicates
(CSLI lecture notes, no. 76)
CSLI Publications, c1998
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Bibliography: p. 350-369
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- On the construct 'Predicate'
- The Structure of Signs
- Morphology
- The Lexical-Functional Structure of Predicates With and Without Particles
- Modification
- Passive
- Causatives
- Middles
- References.
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