UNE APPROCHE LEXICALISÉE DES PHÉNOMÈNES DE CONTRÔLE

We deal with the problem of identifying the obligatory controller of an infinitival complement. We show that a lexical approach is descriptively more adequate than the purely syntactic one of generative grammarians (Minimal Distance Principle) or a purely semantic one (as in GPSG). We offer a formal...

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Published in:Langages (Paris) 1996-06, Vol.30 (122), p.96-122
Main Author: Baschung, Karine
Format: Article
Language:fre
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Summary:We deal with the problem of identifying the obligatory controller of an infinitival complement. We show that a lexical approach is descriptively more adequate than the purely syntactic one of generative grammarians (Minimal Distance Principle) or a purely semantic one (as in GPSG). We offer a formalization in Unification Categorial grammar (UCG) that captures the lexical generalizations we have found to hold in French. We also consider alternative approaches within lexical semantics (Dowty) or HPSG (Pollard and Sag).
ISSN:0458-726X
1958-9549
DOI:10.3406/lgge.1996.1751