A Theory of Predicates

by Gert Webelhuth and Farrell Ackerman

Book Overview

Lexicalism is a theory of information associated with words and what exactly a word is. The authors propose a different idea of what can be contained in words. Lexicalism is first and foremost a hypothesis about functional-semantic information and secondly a hypothesis about the formal expression of this information. Grammar rules cannot change the argument structure of words. Any change to the meaning of words must occur in the lexicon. A new lexical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575860864
• ISBN13: 9781575860862
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"