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 | | The predicate frames carry their own content; this is the explanation of how predicates realised in a very unusual or brand new frame can be accepted and understood within the prototypical content of the frame chosen, however unusual. |
 | | In this way, Predicate Formation rules are deprived of part of their generative power and restricted to the formulation of transcategorial derivational processes. |
 | | In this paper we present the structure of a lexical database of verbal predicates that follows closely the principles established by Dik's Functional Grammar: the absence of abstract semantic primitives, the incorporation of the principle of stepwise lexical decomposition, the specification of meaning through definitions that are underlying structures and so on. |
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