Abstract
<p>The issue of Interfaces is central to linguistic studies. Modern linguistics, especially semantic studies, has given a special interest to this topic. However, up till very recently, the issue has been dealt with mainly from a syntactico-centric point of view. Throughout the development of linguistic theories, there has been a rooted idea in generative grammar that meaning is generated from syntactic structure. In fact, although we adopt the Conceptual Semantics framework, which considers meaning to be too rich and multidimensional to be encoded in purely syntactic mechanisms, we shall deal with the correspondence between syntax and semantics where these two components directly correlate with one another. In other words, we will deal with the topic from the angle where syntax bears <em>all</em> semantic relations.</p>
Highlights
In generative grammar including the Minimalist Program, there has been a rooted idea that the interface between syntax and semantics is a trivial one-to-one correspondence
We found out that subject position is usually linked to Agent/Actor role and the normal syntactic position that correlates with the role Patient is the object position
In case the verb requires the action to be instigated by a volitional/ intentional actor, this actor must be an Agent that correlates with subject position in the syntactic structure
Summary
In generative grammar including the Minimalist Program, there has been a rooted idea that the interface between syntax and semantics is a trivial one-to-one correspondence. We will deal with data that prove that there are contexts where syntactic structures bear all semantic relations. This task will be carried out in terms of Thematic Roles which are considered as particular argument positions in conceptual functions We will see how conceptual structures link to syntactic structures This will be conducted, as we already stated, based on how Thematic Roles correlate with syntactic positions.
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