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Lexical Logical Form and Verb Typology: A case study from Malayalam

KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan, National University of Singapore

The authors argue that the interaction between the meanings of morphemes (LCS) on the one hand, and their syntax and phrasal LF on the other, is mediated through Lexical Logical Form (LLF), the rest of the information in LCS being invisible to syntax and phrasal LF. The syntactically relevant verb classifications in Vendler 1967, Levin 1993 and others are encoded in terms of LLF.



Rajesh Bhatt
Mon Mar 30 11:24:59 EST 1998