When roots license and when they respect semantico‐syntactic structure in verbs
Antje Roßdeutscher · 2014
Abstract This chapter investigates the contribution of roots to the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs. The principal question is: how can the semantics of verbs be constructed from their roots? The chapter constructs Discourse Representation Structures (DRS) from word-syntactic representation in the spirit of Distributed Morphology (DM). Roots can be considered to be events, stative properties, or entities: subtle differences show up when it comes to deciding how to implement the consequences of these three categories in a syntax-semantics interface.