caa a22 4500 465752144 CHVBK 20180323111837.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00310041 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00310041 Rapoport T. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA aut Secondary predication and the lexical representation of verbs [Elektronische Daten] [T. Rapoport] In this paper it is assumed that syntactic structure is projected from the lexicon. The lexical representation, which encodes the linguistically relevant aspects of the meanings of words, thus determines and constrains the syntax. Therefore, if semantic analysis of syntactic structures is to be possible, it is necessary to determine the content and structure of lexical semantic representations. The paper argues for a certain form of lexical representation by presenting the problem of a particular non-standard structure, the verb phrase of the form V-NP-Adj corresponding to various constructions of secondary predication in English. It is demonstrated that the solution to the semantic analysis of this structure lies in the meaning of the structure's predicators, in particular the lexical semantic representation of the verb. Verbs are classified according to the configuration of the lexical semantic representations, whether basic or derived. It is these specific configurations that restrict the possibilities of secondary predication. Given the class of a verb, its relation to the secondary predicate is predictable; and the correct interpretation of the V-NP-Adj string is therefore possible. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 affectedness (verbs of change) nationallicence depictive nationallicence lexical conceptual structure nationallicence lexical representation nationallicence lexical subordination nationallicence lexicon nationallicence middle nationallicence predicate nationallicence predicator nationallicence resultative nationallicence secondary predication nationallicence thematic relation nationallicence verb nationallicence Machine Translation Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/1(1990-03-01), 31-55 0922-6567 5:1<31 1990 5 10590 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00310041 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00310041 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rapoport T. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Machine Translation Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/1(1990-03-01), 31-55 0922-6567 5:1<31 1990 5 10590 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer