Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation

af Jean Mark Gawron

First published in 1983, this book attempts to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics. The first chapter proposes a framework of lexical description which is then expanded upon in chapter two. A theory of the semantics of nuclear terms along with a proposed implementation is presented in chapter three. The fourth chapter argues that a number of regular, semantically governed valence alternations could be captured in frame representations that give rise to various kinds of... (Læs mere)