Chapter 18 Lexical Functions: Description of Lexical Relations in a ...

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22. Equip [Fr. équipage (crew)] = (the staff/the crew of …)
Examples
Equip(university) = staff [of ART ~];
faculty [of ART ~]
Equip(theater) = company [of ART ~]
Equip(aircraft) = crew [of ART ~]
Equip(hospital) = personnel, staff
[of ART ~]
Equip(empire) = population, subjects
[of ART ~]
Equip(catholic church) = clergy [of ART ~]
Cap and Equip both have mostly non-fused elements of the value—L can be added to L´
almost everywhere, as we see in the above examples; as a rule, L´ forms with L a collocation.
Nonetheless, Cap and Equip determine particular names (‘What do you call the head of L?’,
‘What do you call the personnel of L?’), and thus both are paradigmatic LFs.
LFs 23 and 24 correspond to syntactic inflectional meanings: those of the participle and
of the deverbal adverb, respectively. Both are applicable to LUs whose meanings are functors and
have actants.
23. A i = actantial adjectives
The LF A i denotes the determining property of the i-th Deep-SyntA of L [= DSyntAi(L)]
from the viewpoint of its role in the situation (L). Semantically, A 1 is roughly equivalent to an
active participle (≈ (which is L-ing)), and A 2, to a passive participle (≈ (which is being L-ed)).
Syntactically, A i is an adjective; it is prototypically used, as is expected of a Deep Adjective, to
modify a noun.
Examples
A 1(angerN) = in [~] //angry
A 1(importance) = of [~] //important
A 1(knowV) = //aware
A 1 (searchV[for NY]) = //in searchN [of NY]
24. Adv i= actantial adverbs
A 2(fireV [upon NY]) = //under fire
A 2(conduct [an orchestra]) = //under the baton [of NX]
A 2(crossfire) = caught [in ~]
A 2(analyze) = //under analysis
The LF Adv i denotes the determining property of the action by the i-th DSyntA of L
according to the role of the DSyntAi(L) in the situation described by L. Semantically, Adv 1 is
roughly equivalent to an active deverbal adverb (≈ (while L-ing)), and Adv 2, to a passive deverbal
adverb (≈ (while being L-ed)). Syntactically, Adv i is a Deep adverb; it is prototypically used to
modify a verb, an adjective or another adverb.