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Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs

  • Starting from early approaches within Generative Grammar in the late 1960s, the article describes and discusses the development of different theoretical frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs. It presents the major subsequent conceptions of lexical decompositions, namely, Dowty’s approach to lexical decomposition within Montague Semantics, Jackendoff’s Conceptual Semantics, the LCS decompositions emerging from the MIT Lexicon Project, Pustejovsky’s Event Structure Theory, Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage, Wunderlich’s Lexical Decompositional Grammar, Hale and Kayser’s Lexical Relational Structures, and Distributed Morphology. For each of these approaches, (i) it sketches their origins and motivation, (ii) it describes the general structure of decompositions and their location within the theory, (iii) it explores their explanative value for major phenomena of verb semantics and syntax, (iv) and it briefly evaluates the impact of the theory. Referring to discussions in article 7 [Semantics: Foundations, History and Methods] (Engelberg) Lexical decomposition, a number of theoretical topics are taken up throughout the paper concerning the interpretation of decompositions, the basic inventory of decompositional predicates, the location of decompositions on the different levels of linguistic representation (syntactic, semantic, conceptual), and the role they play for the interfaces between these levels.

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Author:Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90783
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626391-002
ISBN:978-3-11-062296-6
Parent Title (English):Semantics. Lexical structures and adjectives
Series (Serial Number):Mouton Reader (.)
Publisher:de Gruyter
Place of publication:Berlin [u.a.]
Editor:Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Date of Publication (online):2019/07/16
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Reviewstate:(Verlags)-Lektorat
GND Keyword:Generative Semantik; Verb
First Page:47
Last Page:98
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Semantik
Program areas:Lexik
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International