What about word meaning if syntax is the only generative component of languages?

• Syntactic approaches to word formation erase the distinction between that component of languages which is responsible for the formation of words – the generative lexicon – and that component which is responsible for the formation of sentences – the syntax. • Since syntax as an independent module is needed anway, for reasons of minimal design of the human language faculty and ontological parsimony of explanation, the syntactic approach to word formation is favoured over lexicalist approaches (cp. Embick [2004], Bruening [2014]). • The focus of this paper is on the exploration of the consequences of the general assumption that word formation is entirely syntactic for the analysis of word meaning.