This paper challenges what it calls the semantic determinist hypothesis (SDH) of argument licensing, according to which the syntactic realisation of a verb’s arguments is a function of its semantic properties. Specifically, it takes issue with ‘event schema’ versions of the SDH applied to the English ditransitive alternation (give/send {Jesse the gun/the gun to Jesse}), which claim a systematic, syntactically predictive distinction between ‘caused possession’ and ‘caused motion’. It is first shown that semantic and syntactic irregularities among the alternating verbs disconfirm such a mapping. More crucially, however, it is argued that ‘non-prototypical’ (metaphorical and idiomatic) usage (The news report gave Walt an idea, Walt’s actions gave the lie to his promises, The discovery sent Jesse into a fury) is fatal to the SDH, since the hypothesis entails the existence of semantic constraints on argument realisation which these expressions violate.Based on an analysis of the semantically-related verbs give, send, and put, it is claimed that prototypical, metaphorical and idiomatic expressions of a verb can all be licensed straightforwardly, but only if theory maintains separate syntactic and semantic representation of arguments in lexical entries, observing the ‘parallel architecture’ of Jackendoff (1997, 2002), and only if argument tokens are licensed by the syntactic representation alone. A type of structure called a Lexical Argument Construction is proposed, which can describe all the relevant properties of verbs and verbal idioms.

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意义、隐喻和论证结构

这篇论文挑战了它所谓的语义决定论假设(SDH) 论据许可，根据该规定，动词论元的句法实现是其语义属性的函数。具体来说，它对应用于英语双及物交替的 SDH 的“事件模式”版本存在问题（给/发送{杰西枪/枪给杰西}），它声称在“引起的占有”和“引起的运动”之间有系统的、句法预测的区别。首先表明交替动词之间的语义和句法不规则性不证实这种映射。然而，更关键的是，有人认为“非典型”（隐喻和惯用）用法（新闻报道给了沃尔特一个想法,沃尔特的行为兑现了他的承诺,这一发现让杰西大发雷霆) 对 SDH 是致命的，因为该假设需要存在语义约束关于这些表达违反的论据实现。基于语义相关动词的分析给,发送， 和放, 据称，动词的原型、隐喻和惯用表达都可以直接获得许可，但前提是理论在词汇条目中保持独立的句法和语义表示，并观察 Jackendoff (1997, 2002) 的“并行架构”，并且仅当参数标记仅由句法表示许可时。一种称为a的结构词法参数构造提出，它可以描述动词和动词成语的所有相关属性。