Lexical decomposition in syntax

1995 ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnim von Stechow
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decomposition

scholarly journals Nominalization and argument structure in Early New High German

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 67-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Demske
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Argument Structure ◽  
German Language ◽  
Decomposition Approach ◽  
Lexical Decomposition ◽  
Early New High German ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
Syntactic Behavior ◽  
Different Parts

Recent work on argument selection couched in a lexical decomposition approach (Ehrich & Rapp 2000) postulates different linking properties for verbs and nouns, challenging current views on argument inheritance. In this paper, I show that the different behavior with respect to verbal and nominal linking observed for Present-Day German does not carry over to ung-nominals in Early New High German. Deverbal nouns and corresponding verbs rather behave alike with respect to argument linking. I shall argue that this change is motivated by the growing rift between ung-nominals and their verbal bases both focussing on different parts oftheir lexicosemantic structure in Present-Day German. Evidence for the verb-like behavior of ung-nominals in Early New High German comes from the regular meaning relation between verbs and corresponding derived nouns, the actional properties of event-denoting nouns, and the patterning of ung-nominals with nominalized infinitives. Even their syntactic behavior reflects the verbal character of ung-nominals during that period of the German language. The diachronic facts can be accounted for in a straightforward way once we adopt a lexical decomposition approach to argument selection.  

scholarly journals Du verbe au nom et du nom au verbe: Syntaxe et sémantique des maṣdars en arabe standard

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 19-57
Author(s):  
Fayssal Tayalati
Keyword(s):  
External Argument ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Internal Argument ◽  
Decomposition Model ◽  
Lexical Decomposition ◽  
Transitive Verbs ◽  
Genitive Case

The article describes the properties of deverbal nouns (maṣdars) in Standard Arabic. Prior accounts identify the following type (qaṣfu l-ʿaduwwi li-l-madīnati), among others, but neglect the maṣdar that introduces its internal argument as a direct complement in the genitive case and its external argument as a prepositional adjunct (taḥrīru l-madīnati ʿalā yadi l-jayši ). We argue that these two types reflect two different conceptu-alizations of ‘events’: bound-events, which describe a change that has taken place in the nature of a sub-stance represented by the internal argument; and unbound-events, which describe a change in the relation-ship between the internal and external arguments.Within the lexical decomposition model, we propose a semantic basis for explaining constraints on direct transitive verbs according to (i) the type of maṣdars they form; (ii) the possibility of deriving a resul-tative passive participle (ism al-mafʿūl); and (iii) the alternation, for some verbs, between a causative and non-causative use without any morphological variation.Keywords: lexical decomposition, deverbal noun (maṣdars), (un)bound-event

scholarly journals Syntactically-based Lexical Decomposition: The Case of Climb Revisited

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Mateau
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
General Session ◽  
Lexical Decomposition

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)

Event Structure and Syntax

2019 ◽  
pp. 455-489
Author(s):  
Tal Siloni
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Causative Alternation ◽  
Lexical Decomposition ◽  
Decompositional Analysis

This chapter examines the syntactic decompositional view of event structure. On this view, the event is composed of distinct syntactic heads that correspond to its meaning ingredients. The chapter critically reviews the various arguments presented in the literature for a decompositional analysis of pairs of verbs that differ roughly in that one of them has one more argument than the other. It focuses on the inchoative alternation, comparing it to the Japanese and Hungarian causative alternations. The chapter shows that these alternations differ from one another in important respects, and only the Japanese causative alternation deserves a syntactic decompositional treatment. The chapter thus contributes a critical evaluation of the scope and limitations of syntactic representations of lexical decomposition.

A frame-analysis of the interplay of grammar and cognition in emission verbs

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Fleischhauer ◽  
Thomas Gamerschlag ◽  
Wiebke Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Lexical Decomposition ◽  
Lexical Content

AbstractMost decompositional approaches are confined to representing event structural properties whereas the idiosyncratic lexical content is often reduced to an unanalyzed atomic root. While approaches of this type are successfully applied to argument linking and some additional grammatical phenomena, we argue that other grammatically relevant aspects of verb behavior cannot be accounted for in this way. In order to illustrate the limits of ‘traditional’ decompositional accounts, we focus on the class of verbs of emission. Verbs of this class exhibit some grammatical asymmetries whose analysis requires lexical decomposition beyond traditional event structure templates. We argue that frames are a suitable format for extending event structure templates and provide an analysis of the phenomena at issue.

The lexical decomposition of Present-Day English verb particle combinations

2012 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Bettelou Los ◽  
Corrien Blom ◽  
Geert Booij ◽  
Marion Elenbaas ◽  
Ans van Kemenade
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decomposition ◽  
English Verb

scholarly journals An Idiomatic Argument for Lexical Decomposition

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norvin Richards
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decomposition
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