A central assumption in generative grammar research on the relationship between syntax and the lexicon is that syntax is a projection of the lexicon. The structure of sentences is a refl ection of the lexical properties of the individual lexical items they contain. In the standard view, each lexical item is associated with a lexical entry that contains three kinds of information, as indicated i...

Two experiments investigated whether lexical retrieval for speaking can be characterized as a competitive process by assessing the effects of semantic context on picture and word naming in German. In Experiment 1 we demonstrated that pictures are named slower in the context of same-category items than in the context of items from various semantic categories, replicating ®ndings by Kroll and Ste...

Language acquisition proceeds incrementally. Certain properties of the target grammar are not acquired before other properties have been identified. The order of grammatical acquisition steps can be documented empirically from CHILDES files. The child starts with lexical items that can be identified in the situation. The child is able to acquire characterizing names and it is able to construct ...

It is explicitly or implicitly stated in many scholarly works on proper names that the linguistic status of these lexical items “odd” (étrange). Their odd nature due to several factors, such as their functional propensity correlate with a single referent, lack conceptual meaning, morphological invariability, inability be clearly differentiated from common unambiguous and generally accepted crit...

In order to resolve metonymy and other violations of selectional restrictions between lexical items, a language understander must be able to infer relationships that do not have explicit lexical analogs in tile sentence. Although such inferencing has typically been relegated to the world knowledge portion of a natural language processing system, there is also evidence, from both theoretical ana...

In this paper the problem is discussed about the text structure determination and content analysis by lexical parall~lism, o r the repetition of lexical items. Intersentential relations are determined through the identical, partly identical or lexico-semantic repetition in Japanese scientific texts. Lexical parallelism ratio and lexical parallelism indicator distance are obtained on computer an...

This paper is yet another contribution to the enormous theoretical headache that is the syntactic and semantic analysis of proper names. In particular, I provide a preliminary argument for the claim that proper names are always syntactically base-generated as functional items, as types of pronouns. I will do so by constructing a reductio ad absurdum argument against the opposing view, the view ...

This paper proposes a method for integrating intonation and information structure into the Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) formalism. The method works fully within LTAG and requires no changes or additions to the basic formalism. From the existing CCG analysis, we denote boundary tones as lexical items and pitch accents as features of lexical items. We then show how prosodically marke...

It seems likely that all languages make a distinction between words belonging to functional categories and those belonging to lexical categories, a distinction which roughly coincides with the sets of open and closed class items. Nouns, verbs and adjectives constitute the class of lexical categories in English, conjunctions and other sorts of particles fall into the class of functional categori...

This paper deals with the impact of the salience of complex words and their constituent parts on lexical access. While almost 40 years of psycholinguistic studies have focused on the relevance of morphological structure for word recognition, little attention has been devoted to the relationship between the word as a whole unit and its constituent morphemes. Depending on the theoretical approach...