@incollection{Engelberg2014,
  author    = {Stefan Engelberg},
  title     = {Lexical decomposition: foundational issues},
  series = {Semantics: an international handbook of natural language meaning. Volume 1},
  editor    = {Claudia Maienborn and Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin [u.a.]},
  isbn      = {978-3-11-022661-4},
  doi       = {10.1515/9783110226614.124},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-28285},
  pages     = {124 -- 144},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Theories of lexical decomposition assume that lexical meanings are complex. This complexity is expressed in structured meaning representations that usually consist of predicates, arguments, operators, and other elements of propositional and predicate logic. Lexical decomposition has been used to explain phenomena such as argument linking, selectional restrictions, lexical-semantic relations, scope ambiguites, and the inference behavior of lexical items. The article sketches the early theoretical development from nounoriented semantic feature theories to verb-oriented complex decompositions. It also deals with a number of theoretical issues, including the controversy between decompositional and atomistic approaches to meaning, the search for semantic primitives, the function of decompositions as defi nitions, problems concerning the interpretability of decompositions, and the debate about the cognitive status of decompositions.},
  language  = {en}
}