Dumping Lexicalism

The Lexical Hypothesis is about the organization of the grammar into modules. It suggests that the system of words in a language is independent of the system of phrases in a language in a particular way. It is independent of it, but communicates with it through a narrow channel-the "top-level&q...

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Published inRegimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology pp. 13 - 41
Main Author Williams, Edwin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2011
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Constituent Negation
Bare Phrase Structure
Internal Syntax
Vice Versa
Lexical Insertion
Word System
Transitive Nominalization
Lexical Hypothesis
LRT
Phrasal Idioms
Phrasal System
Negative Polarity Item
Idiomatic Meaning
vP
Idiom
Prosodic Constraint
Distant Antecedent
Dm
LEC
Corner's Hat
Can
Phrasal Syntax
VP Movement
Local Dislocation
Bare Plural
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ISBN0415754399
9780415754392
9780415887236
0415887232
DOI10.4324/9780203830796-3

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Summary:The Lexical Hypothesis is about the organization of the grammar into modules. It suggests that the system of words in a language is independent of the system of phrases in a language in a particular way. It is independent of it, but communicates with it through a narrow channel-the "top-level" properties of words. The system of words determines what the words of a language are, and what their properties are. The system of phrases determines how words form phrases, based on the properties of words.
ISBN:0415754399
9780415754392
9780415887236
0415887232
DOI:10.4324/9780203830796-3