Argument linking and extended locality. A frame-based implementation (A02)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192776181

Project A02 aims at incorporating a frame-based theory of lexical semantics into an architecture for a syntax-semantics interface. The chosen syntactic formalisms, lexicalized tree adjoining grammar and related constructionist frameworks, feature an extended domain of locality, which allows for a local realization of valency frames and which facilitates the distinction between lexical and construction-specific semantic information. In its third funding period, A02 concentrates on cross modification, recursive modification, modification of complex predicates, and idiomatic multi-word expressions in English and German. A02 will test its analyses via implementing grammar fragments.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 991: The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition and Science
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Laura Kallmeyer; Dr. Timm Lichte