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Lexical Syntax: History
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Lexical syntax refers to the study of how lexical items, including words and their associated grammatical properties, determine and constrain syntactic structure. It examines how information encoded in lexical entries, such as a word's category, argument structure, and subcategorization requirements, influences the combinations in which that word can occur within phrases and sentences [1][2]. In theories that emphasize the lexicon, lexical syntax accounts for the relationship between word-level grammatical information and the formation of larger syntactic constituents, including the syntactic realization of a predicate's arguments.

  • Lexical syntax
  • Lexical entries
  • Argument structure
  • Subcategorization

References

  1. Edith A. Moravcsik; Jane Grimshaw:Argument structure. Stud. Lang. 1993, 17, 455-467, 10.1075/sl.17.2.09mor.
  2. Ray Jackendoff. Foundations of Language; Oxford University Press (OUP): Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 2002. [CrossRef]
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