Lexical decomposition: foundational issues
- 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.
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| Author: | Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-28285 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226614.124 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-022661-4 |
| Parent Title (German): | Semantics: an international handbook of natural language meaning. Volume 1 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (33,1) |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/07/01 |
| GND Keyword: | Dekomposition; Semantik |
| First Page: | 124 |
| Last Page: | 144 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | nein |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |