Open AccessOn nonprimary selectional restrictions
Author(s) -
Niina Zhang
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.26.2001.145
Subject(s) - element (criminal law) , selection (genetic algorithm) , linguistics , computer science , projection (relational algebra) , thematic map , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , algorithm , geography , political science , law , cartography
This paper argues for non-primary c- and s-selectional restrictions of verbs in computing nonprimary predicatives such as resultatives, depictives, and manners. Our discussion is based both on the selection violations in the presence of nonprimary predicates and on the cross-linguistic and language-internal variations of categorial and semantic constraints on nonprimary predicates. We claim that all types of thematic predication are represented by an extended projection, and that the merger of lexical heads with another element, regardless of the type of the element, consistently has c- and s-selectional restrictions.