@incollection{Engelberg2019,
  author    = {Engelberg, Stefan},
  title     = {Lexical decomposition: foundational issues},
  booktitle = {Semantics. Foundations, history, and methods},
  editor    = {Heusinger, Klaus von and Maienborn, Claudia and Portner, Paul},
  isbn      = {978-3-11-037373-8},
  doi       = {10.1515/9783110368505-007},
  pages     = {156 -- 181},
  year      = {2019},
  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 ambiguities, and the inference behavior of lexical items. The article sketches the early theoretical development from noun-oriented 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 definitions, problems concerning the interpretability of decompositions, and the debate about the cognitive status of decompositions.},
  subject      = {Dekomposition},
  language  = {en}
}