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THE USE OF THE GENERATIVE LEXICON IN THE INTERPRETATION OF WORDS
THE USE OF THE GENERATIVE LEXICON IN THE INTERPRETATION OF WORDS

Author(s): Ionela Guşatu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: generative lexicon; argument structure; event structure; qualia structure

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a new model of lexical description, the generative lexicon. As we are going to see, the generative lexicon offers a more detailed representation of the meaning of a word than any other representation and it helps us to understand why some structures are well formed in a language while others are not.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 94-100
  • Page Count: 7