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

LF-Sem-Rule 3
(intensely)
1
!
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L(P)
ATTR
(P) Magn
The meaning (intensely P) is expressed
by a Magn modifying the LU L(P) that
lexicalizes the meaning (P).
There are also other sources for Magn, but these examples seem to be sufficient here.
3. The LF Real 3:
LF-Sem-Rule 4
(P) " (prescription)
2 3
1
(Y) (Z)
example.
!
L(Z)
Real 3
I II
II
L(Y)
L(P)
The meaning (Z does Y that some-
one’s prescription P tells him to do)
can be expressed by a Real 3,
applied to the noun L(P) that
lexicalizes the meaning (P).
The LF Real i has other semantic sources, too; but as above, I will limit myself to one
Where subtler meaning distinctions concerning LFs are needed, semantic distinguishers,
superscripts and other devices, as presented above, are used.
According to the given definitions, the LFs are selected, in the process of synthesis, and
inserted into the DSyntS of the sentence being constructed—very much like all other Deep
Lexical Units. 25
6.2. Phraseological Aspect of Lexical Functions
6.2.1. Graduality of Restrictedness of LF Expressions
In some cases, an element of the value of a given LF f is highly idiosyncratic: e.g., pay
ATTENTION, where PAY = Oper 1(attention) is a rare choice. But in numerous other cases elements
of an LF are not idiosyncratic at all: for example, attract X’s ATTENTION, where ATTRACT =
Caus 2Func 2(attention) is semantically completely motivated. However, this expression still must
be described by a lexical function: with some other nouns, you cannot use attract in order to