Ramchand Gillian Catriona. Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax

Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 228 pages. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). — ISBN13: 978-0-521-84240-2; ISBN13: 978-0-511-38791-3Classical generative grammar partitions linguistic competence into three basic components: lexical knowledge, phrase structure rules and transformational rules. One of the fundamental debates over the years, and one which is still alive today, concerns the division of labour between information and processes that reside in the lexicon and those rules and processes that are part of syntax.In this book, the author explores a view of the architecture of grammar whereby the lexicon is eliminated as a module with its own special primitives and modes of combination claiming that to the extent that lexical behaviour is systematic and generalizable, this is due to syntactic modes of combination and not to distinct lexicon-internal processes.The empirical ground
A first-phase syntax
Deriving verb classes
Paths and results
Causativization