Argument-linking Principle

In Lieber (1983), Argument-linking Principle is proposed as a principle that intended to account for the interpretation of synthetic compounds.

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This principle accounts for the fact that the interpretation of the non-head in synthetic compounds such as truck driver and hand-woven - which are assumed to have the morphological structures [truck] [drive er] and [hand] [weave en] - is quite restricted. In these synthetic compounds, the non-heads truck and hand must be interpreted as the internal argument of drive, or the argument of weave, respectively.

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Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics