Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation

by Jean Mark Gawron

First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules. The first chapter proposes a basic framework in which to undertake lexical description and a lexical semantic analogue to the classical syntactic distinction between subcategorized for complement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138694746
• ISBN13: 9781138694743
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"