The Theory of Lexical Functions: an update

• Autores: Jurij D. Apresjan
• Localización: Proceedings [of the] Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory [Recurso electrónico] / David Beck (ed. lit.), Kim Gerdes (ed. lit.), Jasmina Milicevic (ed. lit.), Alain Polguère (ed. lit.), 2009, ISBN 978-2-9811149-0-7, págs. 1-14
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The standard theory of lexical functions (LFs) roughly claims: (a) that the values of simple LFs of the OPER-LABOR-FUNC family are semantically void; (b) that the values of collocate LFs are phraseologically bound with regard to their argument words and that, consequently, collocations of the form L + X, where L is the value of a certain LF from the argument X, are idiomatic intraand interlinguistically. The present paper purports to show that all the lexemes which are values of collocate LFs are meaningful and that their choice is semantically quite well, though not completely, motivated. The basic assumption for both claims is that semantically well-formed sentences are subject to the general law of semantic agreement which requires of collocated items L and X, with the exception of a small number of genuinely idiomatic combinations, one of the following two things: either L or X meets the semantic conditions for filling the valency of the other; or both collocated items display at least one recurrent semantic component in their lexical meaings. These considerations create a foundation for at least partially predicting a set of probable values for each LFi(X). Such plausible lexicographic expectations allow to proceed from an itemby- item description of lexicon to a description of the vocabulary of a language as a system.