The LDG framework

Lexical Decompositional Grammar (LDG) provides a principled account for phenomena in which predicates and/or arguments are added to a base verb (or noun). LDG assumes four levels of representation, each having its own structural properties:

·     Conceptual Structure (CS),

·     Semantic Form (SF),

·     Theta Structure (TS), and

·     Morphology/ Syntax (MS),

and a set of principles that constrain the mappings between these levels.