Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
6.2.3 The necessity of a heterogeneous theory The conclusion is that the term“lexical rule”has been applied to twodistinct pheno ...
Thestored irregularatehas thesame syntacticand semantic structures as (6), and thesame connectionsbetweenthem, but a different c ...
Looking at the tension between these theories fro mour present very concrete standpoint of storage in the brain, we arrive at th ...
6.3 Psycholinguistic considerations The need for a heterogeneous theory of morphology has also been the subject of intense dispu ...
McClelland and Seidenberg2000), that theneural networkapproach as presentlyconceivedpotentiallyyields thekey to the full product ...
against the network approach still goes through. The rule has two variables: “Combine anything with anything appropriate”; and t ...
the lexicon and discovers that it is linked to [V+past] in syntax and [PAST [EAT]]in semantics. (See Chapter 7) for extended dis ...
event, the pattern suggested by (9) is not a strict regularity; it is shot through with holes. Some of the -ing/-inkverbs have - ...
words are inserted into syntactic trees under lexical categories such as N, V, and Det. Hence the grammar has to generate a VP d ...
And then one may try to propose a reason within Universal Grammar that would justify forcing such a movement to take place. But, ...
This is somewhat more elaborate thanstaranddevour(Ch. 5, (24) and (51a)), but the similarities are clear. In particular, theargu ...
an interesting parallel with morphology: apart from their semantics, idioms are like stored regular morphological combinations. ...
instanceHe let the cat out of the bagvs.The cat was let out of the bag; We must draw the line somewherevs.The line must be drawn ...
upper case and the freely chosen elements in lower case (a fuller formalization is as in (14)). (17) [VPV np PP]: take NP to tas ...
That is, these expressions are VPs in whichthe NP and PRT are lexicallyfixed and the V is a free variable.We should also notethe ...
(22) we're twisting the night away. Hank drank the whole afternoon away. Kathy happily knitted two hours away. Here the verb is ...
Various discussions in the literature (e.g. Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1991) treat the formation of resultatives as a “lexical ru ...
In theAspectsframework, strict subcategorization is regarded as a feature on a verb, say [+_NP] forexpress; various othertreatme ...
6.7 Generalizing the notion of construction Thelastsectiondescribed a familyofconstructionalidioms inEnglishinwhichthemainverbof ...
d. week by week; book after book; bumper to bumper (General form: N P N)^86 (Williams 1994; Oehrle 1998) These are far from“core ...
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