Finding Relief for FG Lexical RepresentationA Syntactic-Semantic Description of Old English Verbs of 'Healing'
ISSN: 0211-5913
Year of publication: 2001
Issue Title: Challenges and developments in functional grammar
Issue: 42
Pages: 79-102
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Abstract
This paper evaluates a new conception of lexical semantic representation as proposed recently within the Functional Lexematic Model. Such evaluation involves a comparison of Functional Grammar’s lexical representation with other proposals. In order to avoid some of the weaknesses inherent to both Functional Grammar and other more syntacticallycentered descriptions, the concept of lexical template is introduced. In the last section, an analysis of the syntactic-semantic behavior of the subdomain of Old English verbs of ‘healing’ is carried out in order to demonstrate its applicability.