%0 Journal Article
%T Lexical Items in Complex Predications: Selection as Underassociation
%A Gillian Ramchand
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2008
%I University of Troms?
%X This paper examines the problem of selectional ¡®matching¡¯ effects in Bengali V-V complex predicates, and English denominal verbs within the context of a decompositional syntax/semantics for verbal meaning and a theory of lexical insertion under non-terminals. It argues that within the particular version of this kind of lexical insertion, as proposed by Ramchand 2008b , selection can be captured by the underassociation of category features constrained by Agree. In this way, I argue that we can achieve many of the effects of selection without any distinct lexical subcategorization frame, or sub-type of feature-checking, once we have a suitably articulated theory of lexical insertion.
%K complex predicate
%K light verb
%K denominal verbs
%K conflation
%K selection
%K exhaustive lexicalization
%K underassociation
%K Bengali
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/139