The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso

Lexical acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface : diathesis alternations, subcategorization frames and selectional preferences

ion Substance Artifact Location NOWSD 0.9 36.4 1.3 1.6 SPass 0.2 54.3 0 5.2 FirstS 1.0 38.6 1.3 0.3 COMB 0.4 54.1 0.5 0 types. PTCMs particularly tended to be less specific than ATCMs. Preference models at the PP slot suffered more from sparse data than subject and direct object slots. This was because the slot is less prevalent to start with, and also because the noun lemmas were considered wi...

A minimalist view of the syntax-lexical semantics interface

This paper presents a restrictive theory of the interface between the lexicon and the syntax. I assume that only a limited amount of lexical information is available at the interface, and, following Borer (1994), that semantic (aspectual) interpretation is assigned at specifiers of aspectual projections, rather than within the VP. Thus, the concept of "Mapping" from lexicon to syntax or the "Li...

Psychological Predicates and the Syntax-semantics Interface

The hypothesis of the autonomy of syntax makes special demands on one of the central issues in linguistic theory: the specification of correspondences between a lexical conceptual and syntactic structure. One strategy is to distinguish several layers of lexical representation and allow only one of them to be "visible" to syntactic and morphological processes (cf. Pinker 1989, Grimshaw 1990). A ...

Construction Grammar and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

A foundational assumption of traditional generative grammar is that a grammar is organized in the mind of the speaker as a number of hermetically sealed modules, which in the course of a derivation hand off data one to the other.1 Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) assumes that the grammar contains no such modules, but rather that grammar is an inventory of signs, complexes of linguistic co...

Lambda-Grammars and the Syntax-Semantics Interface