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这边说DM没解释力；那边说你把句法操作或者带有句法效果的操作都实际搞到词项上去了，那为什么还要坚持lexicon呢。不过我其实很好奇的是，既然这种批评对L-syntax同样适用，那么为何当年DM却选择去incorporate了L-syntax来形式地解释论元结构，而没有选择其他的包括像Reinhart这样更所谓地偏概念与词汇语义学的东西呢
Book
Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface Douban
author:
Tanya Reinhart
publishing house:
The MIT Press
2016
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A systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments.
One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. Reinhart introduced her theory in a seminal paper, “The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts” (2000) and subsequently published other papers with further theoretical development. Although Reinhart continued to work on the Theta System, she had not completed a planned Linguistic Inquiry volume on the topic before her untimely death in 2007. This book, then, is the first to offer a systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System. The core of the book is Reinhart's 2000 paper, accompanied by substantial endnotes with clarifications, summaries, and links to subsequent modifications of the theory, some in Reinhart's unpublished work. An appendix by Marijana Marelj discusses the domain of Case, based on an LSA course she taught with Reinhart in 2005. Two additional essays by Reinhart's linguistic colleagues discuss the division of labor between the lexicon and syntax and the apparent conflict between the Theta System and Distributed Morphology.
These outstanding essays carry forward the late Tanya Reinhart's highly illuminating work, presented fully here for the first time, on central problems of language: the linkage between lexicon and syntax and the intricate ways in which the structure of words and the expressions in which they appear enter into semantic interpretation. A contribution of great value.
Noam Chomsky
How verbs lexicalize events and how event participants are coded in sentences is the very heart of language and reveals the way in which language gives shape to concepts. This book is an insightful and compelling view of the path from grammar to conceptual spaces, by one of the most brilliant, deep, and unorthodox investigators of the language faculty of the twentieth century and beyond.
Gennaro ChierchiaHarvard University
One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. Reinhart introduced her theory in a seminal paper, “The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts” (2000) and subsequently published other papers with further theoretical development. Although Reinhart continued to work on the Theta System, she had not completed a planned Linguistic Inquiry volume on the topic before her untimely death in 2007. This book, then, is the first to offer a systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System. The core of the book is Reinhart's 2000 paper, accompanied by substantial endnotes with clarifications, summaries, and links to subsequent modifications of the theory, some in Reinhart's unpublished work. An appendix by Marijana Marelj discusses the domain of Case, based on an LSA course she taught with Reinhart in 2005. Two additional essays by Reinhart's linguistic colleagues discuss the division of labor between the lexicon and syntax and the apparent conflict between the Theta System and Distributed Morphology.
These outstanding essays carry forward the late Tanya Reinhart's highly illuminating work, presented fully here for the first time, on central problems of language: the linkage between lexicon and syntax and the intricate ways in which the structure of words and the expressions in which they appear enter into semantic interpretation. A contribution of great value.
Noam Chomsky
How verbs lexicalize events and how event participants are coded in sentences is the very heart of language and reveals the way in which language gives shape to concepts. This book is an insightful and compelling view of the path from grammar to conceptual spaces, by one of the most brilliant, deep, and unorthodox investigators of the language faculty of the twentieth century and beyond.
Gennaro ChierchiaHarvard University