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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.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology

• Full title: Theory of Predicates
• Author: Farrell Ackerman, Gert Webelhuth
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9781575860879
• ISBN: 1575860872
• ID: 04820910
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Weight: 75 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 159 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1997

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