The building blocks of word meaning : insights from ambiguous

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Author	Nom, Nominalizations J. E. Pross, Verona Tillmann
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	• In this paper, I explore the semantic interpretation of sortally ambiguous nominalizations in syntactic approaches to word formation in which there is no generative lexicon but word formation is entirely syntactic (i.e. in the tradition of Halle and Marantz [1993], Hale and Keyser [1993], Marantz [1997], Alexiadou [2001], Borer [2005]). • Sortally ambiguous nominals are a challenge to syntactic approaches to word formation: – Without a generative lexicon, the ambiguity of words cannot be rendered as a lexical ambiguity. Instead, the ambiguity of words must be derived from different analyses of the same surface morphology: Structural Disambiguation Principle – “[T]he analysis and structures proposed for a form must also be contained within the analysis of any structure derived from that form” [Harley, 2009, p. 320]. In particular, this implies that different analyses of the same surface morphology must be intergradient (i.e. derived from each other in hierarchical order) in order to avoid a lexical ambiguity in the form of a disjunction of analyses for one and the same form: Containment Principle
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