Open AccessPhrasal or lexical constructions? Some comments on underspecification of constituent order, compositionality, and control
Author(s) -
Stefan Müller
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2007.22
Subject(s) - underspecification , principle of compositionality , computer science , verb , linguistics , control (management) , lexical item , natural language processing , subject (documents) , artificial intelligence , philosophy , library science
This paper is a follow up on Müller, 2006. It contains somecomments on suggestions about the interaction of phrasal Constructions with constituent order thatAdele Goldberg made at various occasions. In addition the paper discusses various HPSG analyses ofparticle verbs that assume lexical representations including phonologically specified parts ofparticle verb lexical entries. A recent phrasal analysis of resultatives (Haugereid, 2007) isdiscussed as well and it is pointed out that control constructions pose problems for phrasalanalyses that do not assume empty elements but require that the subject is realized in a phrasalconfiguration.