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- Title: Argument Structure, Thematic Roles and Linking.
- Author : revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Atlantis
- Release Date : January 01, 2001
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 227 KB
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The goal of this paper is to show that the view (generally adopted in the field of Chomskyan Generative Grammar over the past twenty years) that the semantic function of verbal arguments can be couched in terms of the traditional thematic roles (Agent, Theme, etc.) has led to unsatisfactory results and has proved to be specially faulty in predicting the syntactic realisation of arguments (linking). It is claimed that a proper semantic characterisation of arguments, above all one that can allow the formulation of linking regularities, must start from some theoretical position on the nature of meaning. Two alternative proposals are reviewed and compared: one endorsing the view that meaning may be reduced to conceptual structures ultimately residing in the speaker's brain, and one that assumes that meaning is in the external world of objects and events. Locative alternation verbs provide much of the empirical ground on which hypotheses are based. 1. OVERVIEW AND PROBLEMS
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