Argument Structure: Item-Based or Distributed?
Anatol Stefanowitsch · Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik · 2011
Valency grammars and construction grammars appear to analyze argument structure in fundamentally different ways: the former treat argument structure(s) as a property of individual lexical items, the latter as a set of complex linguistic items existing independently of the specific verbs they occur with. In this paper, I argue that both approaches are good at capturing those aspects of argument structure that are problematic for the other, and that a comprehensive model of argument structure must include both perspectives.