حول المركب الفعلي في العربية من منظور نظرية الصرف الموزع

Abstract EN

In this paper, I argue in favor of the view that a generative lexicon, as advanced in lexicalist theories, might not be needed to derive verbal’s argument structure.

I instead support the hypothesis that a verb’s meaning emerges as a result of the syntactic structure in which it is merged and that the role of lexical items/roots reduces to their idiosyncratic encyclopedic content.

These two assumptions are executed via adopting the proposal that splits the traditional VP structure into two main functional heads, namely VoiceP and vP and via endorsing the architectural assumptions advanced in the framework of Distributed Morphology.

The main empirical support for this claim comes from verbs that appear in syntactic structures that are not in consonance with their semantic-conceptual content.