Lexicon and Grammar: The English Syntacticon (Studies in Generative Grammar, 50) (Studies in Generative Grammar, 50)

This text focuses on the need for a formal lexical theory, in particular one in which lexical insertion occurs at three derivational levels. Its syntactic, subcategorization-based approach fully analyzes constructions such as causatives, light verbs, nominalization, null arguments, passives, perfects, and pseudo-partitives. Rich empirical treatments based on English, French, Italian and Japanese further claim that morphology should be fully integrated into syntax. Theoretical constructs of Economy and Abstract Case are reformulated as conditions at three interfaces: the Dictionary, Logical Form and Phonological Form. This text focuses on the need for a formal lexical theory, analyzing constructions such as causatives, light verbs, nominalization, null arguments, passives, perfects and pseudo-partitives. Generative grammar originally took and can still take as its goal, to formally specify all and only the grammatically well-formed strings of a language. By Joseph E. Emonds. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [451]-461) And Index.