A Theory of Predicates by Farrell Ackerman
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.
Ackerman, Farrell: - Farrell Ackerman is professor of linguistics and director of the Human Development Program at the University of California, San Diego.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781575860862 |
| ISBN 10 | 1575860864 |
| Title | A Theory of Predicates |
| Author | Farrell Ackerman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Center For The Study Of Language And Inf |
| Year published | 1997-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 500 |
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