Lexicality and Argument Structure 1
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1 The Problem Argument structure has two faces, semantic and syntactic. On the semantic side, argument structure represents the core participants in events (states, processes) designated by a single predicator. From this point of view it appears as a type of representation of event structure. On the syntactic side, argument structure represents the minimal information needed to characterize the syntactic dependents of an argument-taking head. From this point of view it appears as a type of syntactic subcategorization or valence register. Thus argument structure is an interface between the semantics and syntax of predicators (which we may take to be verbs in the general case). 2 Its function is to link lexical semantics to syntactic structures. (1) lexical semantics # a-structure # syntactic structure Argument structure encodes lexical information about the number of arguments , their syntactic type, and their hierarchical organization necessary for the mapping to syntactic structure (Bresnan and Zaenen 1990, Rappaport Ho-vav and Levin 1995b). 1 Special thanks to Adele Goldberg for useful comments on an earlier version of this material and to Sam Mchombo for advice on the Chiche^ wa evidence. I alone am responsible for all errors. 2 |ignoring the issue of complex predicates, or multi-headed lexical constructs (Alsina, Bresnan, and Sells (eds.) in press).
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Lexicality and Argument Structure
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