Type Theory and Lexical Decomposition

Pustejovsky, James

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“…The section also introduces the notion of a qua object. The theory of pronoun features put forth in Kratzer (2009) is expanded to accommodate impersonal pronouns, and the features are combined using both the mechanisms detailed in Kratzer (2009), and independently-motivated type-shifting mechanisms proposed in Pustejovsky (1995Pustejovsky ( , 2007.…”

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Impersonal indexicals: one, you, man, and du

Malamud

2012

J Comp German Linguistics

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Impersonal pronouns are pervasive in the world's languages; boundaries between personal and impersonal paradigms are porous. Thus, in many languages, 2 nd -person pronouns can be impersonal (i), and vary under the influence of quantificational adverbs like always and rarely.(i) In those days, you always/usually/rarely lived to be 60.Additionally, dedicated impersonal pronouns may have a special association with the speaker, as argued for English one (Safir 2004;Moltmann 2006Moltmann , 2010 and German man (Kratzer 1997) (ii).(ii) a. One can see this picture from the entrance.(from Moltmann 2006) b. Es war klar, dass man sich nie mehr wiedersehen würde.It was clear that man REFL never again see.again would 'It was clear that we will never see each other again.' (from Kratzer 1997) This paper presents a comparative investigation of the interpretation of impersonal pronouns in English and German, each of which shows signs of both indexicality and impersonal, variable interpretation. The analysis places these pronouns within the pronominal paradigms of English and German, presenting a novel combination of independently-motivated type-shifting mechanisms (Pustejovsky 1995) and an expansion of the general theory of pronominal features (Kratzer 2009). I argue that distinct elements in the semantics of the items are responsible for the varying impersonal and the indexical behaviours. This is a step towards understanding the processes that take pronouns from the personal to the impersonal category, or back.

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Impersonal indexicals: one, you, man, and du

Malamud

2012

J Comp German Linguistics

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“…Según Pustejovsky (1995Pustejovsky ( , 2001Pustejovsky ( , 2013, las entidades (y también los eventos y propiedades) se pueden dividir en tres tipos: tipos naturales, funcionales y complejos. Los tipos naturales son entidades como perro, hombre, etc., que no codifican informaciones ni sobre cómo llegan a existir ni sobre para qué pueden servir.…”

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La construcción con predicativo resultativo en chino

晓邹

2017

CLAC

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Resumen. El presente trabajo constituye un estudio de la construcción con predicativo resultativo en la lengua china; se inscribe en el modelo teórico del Lexicón Generativo formulado por Pustejovsky (1991Pustejovsky ( , 1995, y se sirve de la clasificación de los eventos propuesta por De Miguel y Fernández Lagunilla (2000, 2007) y Fernández Lagunilla y De Miguel (2003. El análisis demuestra que en chino, las construcciones con predicativo resultativo pueden delimitar un evento atélico añadiéndole un cambio de estado o focalizar la culminación del punto de cambio si el evento en su Estructura Eventiva ya contiene dicha información. Por una parte, el estudio de las construcciones con predicativo resultativo en chino prueba la naturaleza composicional del aspecto léxico, y por la otra parte, ratifica la hipótesis de que el contenido léxico de las palabras legitima o excluye sus combinaciones en la sintaxis. Palabras clave: aspecto léxico; chino; Estructura Eventiva; predicativo resultativo.[en] The resultative-predicate construction in Chinese Abstract. The resultative-predicate construction in Chinese. This paper studies the resultative construction in Chinese, adopting the theoretical model of the Generative Lexicon proposed by Pustejovsky (1991Pustejovsky ( , 1995, and the classification of events proposed by De Miguel and Fernández Lagunilla (2000, 2007 and Fernández Lagunilla and De Miguel (2003). The analysis shows that, in Chinese, the resultative construction can delimit an atelic event by adding a change of state, and emphasize the culmination of the point of change if the event in its Event Structure already contains this information. On the one hand, the study of the resultative constructions in Chinese provides consolidated evidence on the existence of compositional nature of lexical aspect, and on the other hand, it confirms the hypothesis that the lexical information is a relevant factor in determining the correctness of a combination of words.

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“…I will argue that Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon (GL) theory (Pustejovsky 1991(Pustejovsky , 1993(Pustejovsky , 1995(Pustejovsky , 1998(Pustejovsky , 2000(Pustejovsky , 2001(Pustejovsky , 2006(Pustejovsky , 2011(Pustejovsky , 2012, developed, amplified and applied to Spanish by De Miguel (2004, is appropriate to explain the behavior of argument PPs. According to the latter, Pustejovsky's model is lexicist, because it presupposes that the syntax of words is determined by their meaning; generative, because it tries to account for language creativity by means of a limited number of universal principles and mechanisms of word combination; and compositional, because it postulates that the different senses a word can acquire hinge on its syntactic context.…”

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“…entities composed of at least two types, which are systematically polysemic: book (object, information), conference (object, event), lunch (food, event), etc. To differentiate between natural and functional kinds, Pustejovsky (1995Pustejovsky ( , 2001Pustejovsky ( , 2006 offers some diagnostics. For example, natural kinds are not compatible with verbs of creation, such as begin, because their agentive quale is underspecified: #I began the tree is only interpretable if the tree is a drawing, for example, which is not a natural type.…”

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Qualia Structure in Spanish Prepositional Verbs: When the verb resorts to a preposition

Zato

2014

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. In generative grammar it is generally assumed that argument prepositional phrases (PPs) can have two syntactic functions: argument and complement. Contrary to this assumption, I propose a unified syntactic treatment for all argument PPs, which, I suggest, is more appropriate to account for the main problems they pose. Focusing on Spanish, I will try to explain how the meaning of prepositional verbs is compositionally built by means of a lexical mechanism of coercion. My claim is based on Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon theory, a sophisticated lexicist and generative model of combination of words.Keywords. prepositional verbs, lexical features, coercion, Generative Lexicon. RESUMEN. En la gramática generativa se suele aceptar que los sintagmas preposicionales (SP) argumentales pueden desempeñar dos funciones sintácticas: argumentos y complementos. Como alternativa a este supuesto, propongo un tratamiento unificado de la sintaxis de dichos SP argumentales, el cual me parece más adecuado para dar cuenta de los principales problemas que plantean. Centrándome en ejemplos en español, trataré de explicar cómo el significado de los verbos preposicionales se construye composicionalmente a través de un mecanismo léxico de coacción. Mi propuesta se basa en la teoría del Lexicón Generativo de Pustejovsky, un modelo lexicista y generativo de combinación de palabras.Palabras clave. verbos preposicionales, rasgos léxicos, coacción, Lexicón Generativo.

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Type Theory and Lexical Decomposition

Cited by 59 publications

References 31 publications

Impersonal indexicals: one, you, man, and du

Impersonal indexicals: one, you, man, and du

La construcción con predicativo resultativo en chino

Qualia Structure in Spanish Prepositional Verbs: When the verb resorts to a preposition

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