In Search of the Origins of the Lexical Syntactic Categories : a Comparative Study of Japanese and English

句法结构是由一个单一的生成系统生成的，与其同态的结构由语义进行成分解释。每个词汇项(VI)是(1)不可预测的语音信息、(2)不可预测的语义(百科全书)信息以及其与复杂句法结构的关联的规范的捆绑。开放类Vis的标签，动词(V)/名词(N)/形容词(A)，可以被认为是这个“插入环境”的变音符号。由于LF与其解释之间的同态，动词被解释为事件的谓词，其参与者被指定，而名词(根)被解释为一种实体的名称。V/N/A这三个词汇范畴的存在很可能源于人类天生的概念倾向，即在感知世界的过程中关注和识别可能性/实体/实体和实体的属性。

Syntactic structure, or LF, is generated by a single generative system and a structure homomorphic to it is interpreted compositionally by semantics. Each vocabulary item(VI) is a bundle of (1) unpredictable phonological information, (2) unpredictable semantic (encyclopedic) information, and specifications for its association with complex syntactic structures. The labels for open-class VIs, verb(V)/noun(N)/adjective(A), can be considered to be a diacritic for this "environment of insertion." Because of the homomorphism between the LF and its interpretation, a verb is interpreted to be a predicate of an eventuality with a specification of its participants and a noun (root) is interpreted to be the name of a kind of entity. The existence of three lexical categories, V/N/A, may very well originate from the innate human conceptual propensity to focus on and identify eventualities/entities/and properties of entities in perceiving the world.