CONTENTS
PART Ⅰ - STUDIES W LEXICAL RELATIONS
Introduction
1. Relevance to Linguistic Theoiy, Intention and Scope = 1
2. Areas of Evidence for the Prelexical Categorial Structure = 5
Chapter 1 : The Grammatical Process of Incorporation (Polycategorial Lexical Attachment)
1.1. The Occurrence and Formalization of Incorporation = 9
1.2. Incorporation and Deletion Compared = 19
1.3. Further Examples of Incorporation of Prepositions = 24
1.4. Incorporation of Nouns and Adjectives = 34
Chapter 2 : Some Simple Sentence Patterns and their Inter-Relations
2.1. the Theme as the Subject of Motional Verbs = 37
2.2. The Theme as Other than Subject with Motional Verbs = 38
2.3. The Possibility of a Transformational Relationship between Buy and Sell = 42
2.4. The Theme with NonMotional Verbs = 45
2.5. Motional, Durational, and NonDurational Verbs = 50
Chapters 3 : Prepositions
3.1. The Negativity of From = 53
3.2. Obligatory Presence of A way before From in NonMotional Expressions = 55
3.3. Prepositional Expressions of Possession = 55
3.4. Extension of the Notion of Possession and Formalization = 58
3.5. The Semantic Relationship between Motional and Durational Verbs = 62
3.6. The Expression of Goal = 66
3.7. The Expression of Location = 69
3.8. The Expression of Accompaniment = 71
3.9. The Expression of Direction (Accompaniment Modified by Location or Goal) = 75
3.10. Source-Goal Patterns and their Homogeneity = 78
3.11. Subordinate Expression of Goal = 85
3.12. The Nature ofAway and other Particles = 87
Chapter 4 : Formalization of the Prelexical Base
4.1. Constituent Structure = 91
4.2. The Attachment of Lexical Items to the Prelexical Base = 96
4.3. Surface Environmental Possibilities for Incorporating Verbs = 103
4.4. Subordinate Expressions of Goal for Incorporating Verbs = 113
Chapter 5 : Further Sentence Types
5.1. Positional and Possessional Transitions : the Omission of To = 121
5.2. Transitions Involving Information Nominals as Theme = 125
5.3. Separate Lexicalization of Subject-Identified Prepositional Phrases = 128
5.4. Non-Lexicalization of Redundant Expressions = 135
5.5. Get with an Abstract Theme = 136
5.6. The Identificational Parameter = 140
5.7. Adjectives and the Identificational Parameter = 148
5.8. The Positional Parameter and the Progressive = 149
5.9. Analysis of Remain = 152
Chapter 6 : Agentive Verbs
6.1. Occurrence of Agentive Verbs = 157
6.2. Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Agentive Verbs = 159
6.3. Occurrence of the Permissive Agentive = 164
6.4. Causative Verbs = 168
6.5. Permissive Verbs = 173
6.6. The Causative Agentive for Durational Verbs = 177
6.7. The Causative Agentive in the Identificational Parameter = 189
6.8. The Semantic Relationship between the Causative and the Permissive Agentive = 193
6.9. Formalization of Agentive Verbs = 195
6.10.Table of Verbs = 208
PART Ⅱ - FUNCTIONS OF THE LEXICON IN FORMAL DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMARS
Introduction = 213
Chapter 1 : Fundamental Assumption: Abandoning Monocategorial Lexical Attachment
1.1. Historical Perspectives = 215
1.1.1. The Semantic Lexicon = 216
1.1.2. The Selectional Lexicon : Feature Cross-Classification = 217
1.1.3. The Transformational Lexicon: Co-Occurrence Relationships = 222
1.1.4. The Translational Lexicon: The Semantic Base Component = 227
1.2. the Present Work = 230
1.2.1. Unity of the Base Component = 230
1.2.1.1. Specificatory Categories vs. Contrastive Features = 233
1.2.1.2. Categorial Trees vs. Feature Matrices = 237
1.2.2. Unity of the Lexical Component = 251
1.2.2.1. Idiosyncratic Mapping vs. Rule Features = 251
1.2.2.2. Ordinary Lexical Attachment vs. the Spelling-out Rules = 257
1.2.3. Unity of Semantics and Syntax = 258
1.2.3.1. The Syntactic Aspect of Semantics = 261
1.2.3.2. The Semantic Aspect of Syntax = 265
Chapter 2 : Lexical Component
2.1. Principles Governing the Possibility of Lexical Attachment = 275
2.1.1. The Lexical Attachment Criterion = 275
2.1.2. The Principle of Disjunctive Ordering = 280
2.1.2.1. Limiting the Semantic Fields = 280
2.1.2.2. Limiting the Syntactic Environment = 298
2.1.3. The Significance of Cycles for Lexical Attachment = 303
2.1.3.1. Redefinition of Disjunctive Ordering Principle: Relative Constituency of Categories = 304
2.1.3.2. Cyclical Applicability of the Disjunctive Ordering Principle = 309
2.1.3.3. Conventions Governing the Automatic Extension and Limitation of Word Senses : Refinement of the Lexical Attachment Criterion = 313
2.2. Content of the Lexicon = 320
2.2.1. Alternatives in Manifesting Underlying Categories = 320
2.2.1.1. Fully Productive vs. Nonproductive Word Extension = 323
2.2.2. Tendencies in Lexical Content : Simplicity Criterion for Lexical Structure = 325
2.2.2.1. Effects of the Simplicity Criterion = 329
2.3. Conventions Operating during Lexical Attachment : Transformational vs. Lexical Treatment of Word Extension = 332
2.3.1. Comparing Simplicity of Lexical and Transformational Spe?ficity = 338
2.3.1.1. Avoidance of Counteractive Specifications = 340
2.3.2. Effects of the Structure of Lexical Entries = 341
2.3.2.1. Defining the Notion 'Word' = 341
2.3.2.2. Phonological Distinction between Fully and Nonproductive Affixations = 344
2.3.2.3. Disjunctive Delimitation of Fully Productive Affixations by Semi-Productive Affixations = 347
2.3.3. Structural Changes during Lexical Attachment = 348
2.3.3.1. Tree Restructuring = 348
2.3.3.2. Intatword Morpheme Order = 350
2.3.3.3. Conventions Governing Morpheme Omission in Word Extension = 356
2.3.3.4. The Attachment of Genitive Markers with Affixal Forms = 358
Literature = 369
Subject and Author Index = 371
