Analysis of polysemy of non deverbal names events from the Lexicon-Grammar and the Generative Lexicon Theory

Walter Koza

Keywords: estructura argumental, argument structure, Polisemia, Polysemy, Lexicon-grammar, Nombres eventivos no deverbales, léxico-gramática, Teoría del Lexicón Generativo, Deverbal eventive nouns, Generative Lexicon Theory

Abstract

The issue with eventivity in nominal lexical units was approached with great interest by the generative grammar in the seventies; however, the focus of those first investigations was centered on nouns derived from verbs. On the contrary, studies about non-deverbal eventive nouns (NDEN) or simple event nouns have been largely scarce. For this purpose, the objective of this work is to stablish an analysis of the polysemy of a NDEN group belonging to the medical field, based on the Lexicon-Grammar (LG) proposal (Gross, 1975) and a subsequent articulation with the Generative Lexicon Theory (TLG) (Pustejovsky, 1995). For this, the following methodological steps are considered: (i) development of LG tables of lexical selection preferences; (ii) elaboration of LG tables of transformational possibilities of the argument structures (AE) resulting from the distributional analysis of (i); (iii) analysis of the AEs that select NDENs as arguments, and (iv) organization of Semantic Structures (SE) for the lexical units analyzed, according to the TLG criteria. The results allow observing, on one hand, that the LG proposal allows to account for the eventual meanings of NDEN; nevertheless, it is necessary to expand the methodology proposed by the LG to the AE in order to cover other possibilities of meaning. Likewise, on the other hand, it is demonstrated that eventivity is a syntactic fenomenon that arises through a mechanism of co-composition of the infraspecified lexical units.

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Título según WOS: Analysis of polysemy of non deverbal names events from the Lexicon-Grammar and the Generative Lexicon Theory
Título según SCOPUS: Analysis of polysemy of non deverbal names events from the Lexicon-Grammar and the Generative Lexicon Theory [Análisis de la polisemia de nombres eventivos no deverbales a partir de las propuestas de la Léxico-Gramática y la Teoría del Lexicón Generativo]
Título según SCIELO: An�lisis de la polisemia de nombres eventivos no deverbales a partir de las propuestas de la L�xico-Gram�tica y la Teor�a del Lexic�n Generativo
Título de la Revista: REVISTA SIGNOS
Volumen: 52
Número: 100
Editorial: EDICIONES UNIV VALPARAISO
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 502
Página final: 530
Idioma: Spanish
DOI:

10.4067/S0718-09342019000200502

Notas: ISI, SCIELO, SCOPUS