TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Engelberg, Stefan
ED  - Heusinger, Klaus von
ED  - Maienborn, Claudia
ED  - Portner, Paul
T1  - Lexical decomposition: foundational issues
T2  - Semantics. Foundations, history, and methods
N2  - 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.
KW  - Dekomposition
KW  - Lexikologie
KW  - Semasiologie
KW  - lexcial decomposition
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-85262
SN  - 978-3-11-037373-8
SB  - 978-3-11-037373-8
SN  - 9783110368505 (Online)
SB  - 9783110368505 (Online)
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368505-007
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368505-007
SP  - 156
EP  - 181
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -