Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
plausible but ungrammatical.”^69 The object can be omitted without noticeably changing meaning, provided the object's modifiers ...
This suggests that the character of a semantic argument is not always sufficient to constrain the category of the corresponding ...
5.9.3 Position of syntactic arguments We now turn to the question of the order in which syntactic arguments are expressed in a c ...
attempting to reverse their order in (33) or (35). The consensus in thefield is that the order is determined by the thematic rol ...
The syntactic categories and positions of the syntactic arguments mostly follow from (a) the constraints on syntactic expression ...
of NP 4 or outside of S 3. This observation might be expressed as the“Head Constraint.” (53) Head Constraint The syntactic argum ...
principle that violates the Head Constraint: through a specification in the argument structure ofseem, its syntactic subject is“ ...
(57) shows three other types of Head Constraint violations. (57) a.John is easy [to please] b. [A picture] is hanging on the wal ...
Thus Universal Grammar must make provision for them in either the syntax or the syntax–semantics interface (depending on one's t ...
components that interact through interface rules. Argument structure provides a rich illustration of this decomposition: it can ...
casesforsubjectsand objectsrespectively, againirrespectiveofthematicrole (althoughthere are oftencertainsemantic intrusions such ...
Fig. 5.6 Incorporating a grammatical function tier This picture differs fro mthe usual LFG architecture in one i mportant respec ...
CHAPTER 6 Lexical Storage versus Online Construction 6.1 Lexical items versus words This chapter focuses on an issue which to my ...
mostly) conform to rules of grammar. Therefore they invoke the language faculty in their production and comprehension. Like indi ...
The argument to be pursued here is that, under the definition of lexical itemz as a unit stored in long-term memory, Lexical it ...
to generative grammar (e.g. HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1994), earlier LFG (Bresnan 1982a), and Hale and Keyser 1993)), thecombination ...
And phrases likepre-lecture preparationandpre-preparation lectureoccasion no surprise; nor do I have any notion whether I've eve ...
goingfrom simplecasestorather complexones. (Toward theend,I'veadded contexts insquare bracketstohelpmake sense of the examples.) ...
“lexical rule”here means“principle of free combination whose output is something of word size or smaller,”and“in thelexicon”mean ...
roughly‘put N on something,’where N is the homophonous noun. But for each individual noun in the language, the lexicon must spec ...
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