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 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.
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| Author: | Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-85262 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368505-007 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-037373-8 |
| ISBN: | 9783110368505 (Online) |
| Parent Title (English): | Semantics. Foundations, history, and methods |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, Paul Portner |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/02/26 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | lexcial decomposition |
| GND Keyword: | Dekomposition; Lexikologie; Semasiologie |
| First Page: | 156 |
| Last Page: | 181 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |