Lexical Items in Complex Predications: Selection as Underassociation
Gillian Ramchand
April 2008 

This paper examines the problem of selectional ‘matching’ effects in Bengali V-V complex predicates, and English denominal verbs within the context of a decompositional syntax/semantics for verbal meaning and a theory of lexical insertion under non-terminals. It argues that within the particular version of this kind of lexical insertion, as proposed by Ramchand 2008b , selection can be captured by the underassociation of category features constrained by Agree. In this way, I argue that we can achieve many of the effects of selection without any distinct lexical subcategorization frame, or sub-type of feature-checking, once we have a suitably articulated theory of lexical insertion.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/000949 (please use that when you cite this article, unless you want to cite the full url: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/000949)
Published in:	Nordlyd 35, special issue on Complex Predication, ed. Peter Svenonius and Inna Tolskaya, pp. 115–141. CASTL, Tromsø
keywords:	nanosyntax, selection, decomposition, lexical insertion, underassociation, selection, complex predicates, syntax
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