ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
PREFACE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER ONE: THEORY OF THE LEXICON.
1,1, In the beginning.
1.2. What is the lexicon ?
1.3. Actual and potential words.
1.4. The mental lexicon,
1,5, The actual and potential lexicon: a formal sketch,
1.5.l, Phonological representations.
1.5.2. Categorial representations.
1.5.3. Semantic representations.
1.6. Lexical rules.
1.6.1. Rule ordering,
1.6.2. The format of lexical rules.
1.6.3. Examples of lexical rules.
1.6.3.1, One-place operations.
1.6.3.2. Two-place operations.
1.6.3.3. N~place operations.
1.6.4. Categorial grammar and subcategorisation.
1.6.5. Phonological sensitivities.
1.6.6. Function application and semantic sensitivities,
1.7. Interaction between syntax and morphology,
1.8. Summary of this chapter.
NOTES.
CHAPTER TWO: THE COMPOSITIONALITY PRINCIPLE IN LEXICAL THEORY.
2.1. Introduction.
2.2. Preliminary remarks.
2.3. Arguments against the compositionality principle.
2.3.1. The holistic point of view.
2.3.Z. Mismatch between structure and interpretation.
2,3.2.1. Lexical relatedness.
2.3.2.2. The argumentation for the 'noncompositional' structures,
2.3.2.3. A digression on Subjacency and the Atom Condition.
2.4 the principle of compositionality
2.5. More on head operations.
2.6. Concluding remarks.
notes
CHAPTER THREE: COMPOSITION,
3.1 Delimitation of the subject,
3,2, Compounds versus syntactic phraser:i_โข
3.3. Some aspects of the categorial anal~sis of compounds.
3.4. Relational nouns.
3.5. Adjective compounds
3,5.1. Elative compounds
3.5.2. Relational adjectival compounds
3.5.3. Other cases,
3.6. Compounds without a functor-argument structure.
3.7. Summary of this chapteI
NOTES
CHAPTER FOUR: SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS.
4.1. Synthetic versus other compounds.
4.2. Roeper and Siegel's lexical transformation theory,
4.2.1. Outline of the proposal.
4.2,2, Evaluation, 5
4,3. Botha's phrasal analysis of synthetic composition.
4.3.1. Outline of Botha's theory.
4.3.2. Evaluation of Botha's theory.
4.4. The Allen-Meijs-Selkirk account of synthetic composition.
4.4.1. Meijs' theory.
4.4.2. Discussion of Meijs' theory.11
4.4.3, Selkirk's theory.
4.4.4. Discussion of Selkirk's theory.
4.5. Moortgat's theory.
Notes.
CHAPTER FIVE: A CATEGORIAL THEORY OF SYNTHETIC COMPOSITION
5.1. A Classification of Dutch and English synthetic compounds,
5.2. Deverbal synthetic compounds.
5.2.1. Nominalisations.
5.2.2,_ Excursus on verb interpretations.
5.2.3 Towards a modular theory
5.2.4. Back to nominalisations.
5.2.5. Agentives.
5. 2 .0. Participles.
5.3. Denominal synthetic compounds.
5.3.1. -er derivations.
5.3.2. Adjectival denominal synthetic compounds.
5.3.2.1. Two types of pseudo-compound constructions in Dutch,
5.4. Summary of this chapter.
Notes
CHAPTER SIX: SEMANTIC PROPERTIES OF DUTCH NOMINALISATIONS.
6.1. Introductory remarks.
6.2. The mass-count distinction.
6.3. Verbal aspect,
6.4. Nominalisations and aspectual categories.
6.5. A semantic account,
6.5.1. The semantics of verbal aspect.
6.5.2. Applications of the aspectual semantics,
6.5.3. The semantics of qe- and -ing nominalisations.
6.6. Summary of this chapter.
NOTES
REFERENCES
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