Abstract:
Introduction. The lexicon is traditionally seen as the repository of what is ideosyncratic in a language. And this is to an extent accurate, inasmuch as the relation between a lexeme and the concept it names typically respects Saussurian arbitrariness (setting aside sound symbolism). Furthermore, and importantly, the lexicon is where irregularities (suppletions, unpredictable alternations, and so on) are registered. But there is another aspect of the lexicon, of course, which gives it the character of an entirely lawful system, like grammar---or more specifically, like syntax and the semantic interpretations determined by syntactic structure. This is the aspect of the lexicon known as "argument structure." In the discussion to follow, some material from recent work in Misumalpan dictionary making is discussed. The focus is narrow, being restricted to argument structure, and further, to aspects of argument structure that are to some degree "active" in the lexicon and grammar of the lang
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