Categories in the lexicon

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4766020
AutoresJan Don (0000-0002-6958-218X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen42
Número5
Fecha de publicación2004-01-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2004.033
OpenAlexW1977091897
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas9

This article argues against the hypothesis that roots are stored in the lexicon without categorial specification, such as noun and verb, as proposed in Marantz (1997, 2001). On the basis of evidence from Dutch, we show that certain generalizations and rules cannot be expressed without having roots that are lexically specified for their category. Furthermore, we show that the arguments put forward by Barner and Bale (2002) for categorial underspecification are not valid with respect to the data from Dutch. Finally, following Kiparsky (1997), we show that analyses of denominal verbs in English that embrace the categorial underspecification hypothesis run into serious problems. We conclude that roots are stored in the lexicon with a categorial specification

Lexicon · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation