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Levels of Lexical Representation

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Semantics and the Lexicon

Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ((SLAP,volume 49))

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The lexicon has typically been viewed as a mere list of lexical entries containing idiosyncratic information associated with individual words. Therefore, linguists have paid little attention to the internal structure of lexical entries. More recently, linguists have recognized a need to develop a more structured and elaborated lexical representation. Central to all current theories of the lexicon is a representation of the argument-taking properties of predicators, often referred to as a predicate-argument structure.1 Motivation for the development of theories of predicate-argument representation has come from two sources.

This paper was written in 1987 and also appears as Rappaport, M., Levin, B., and Laughren, M. (1988) Niveaux de représentation lexicale, Lexique 7, 13–32. Although the major positions outlined in this paper are still held by the authors, it should be clear that the paper does not represent the most current eonception of lexical representation of any of the authors.

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  1. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Malka Rappaport

  2. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Beth Levin

  3. Northern Territory Department of Education, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

    Mary Laughren

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Rappaport, M., Levin, B., Laughren, M. (1993). Levels of Lexical Representation. In: Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Semantics and the Lexicon. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1972-6_4

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