Compositionality and deverbal nouns. Testing chomsky's lexcialist hypothesis
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SYNAPS - A Journal of Professional Communication 21(2008) pp.53-61Abstract
Scholars have different attitudes to the relationship between general linguistics and LSP. In this article I will
discuss my own view on this relationship and its theoretical and methodological consequences. In the wake of
this I will test Chomsky’s lexicalist hypothesis on the compound deverbal noun (DN) constructions in
Norwegian. More specifically, I will discuss what happens when DNs with carried over argument structure
from the corresponding verb in unpacked phrases like bygging av hus (“the building of houses”) are packed
down into compounds like husbygging (“house building”). The two basic argument types subject and direct
object will be discussed. Finally I will briefly discuss how petrification and fossilization may be studied in an
LSP context.