Editing Lexical semantics (section)

==== Halle & Marantz 1993 ====
{{main article|Distributed morphology}}
[[File:Distributedmorphtree.png|thumbnail|Halle & Marantz 1993 structure]]
[[Morris Halle]] and [[Alec Marantz]] introduced the notion of [[distributed morphology]] in 1993.<ref>Halle, Morris; Marantz, Alec (1993), Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection, The View from Building 20 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 111–176</ref> This theory views the syntactic structure of words as a result of morphology and semantics, instead of the morpho-semantic interface being predicted by the syntax. Essentially, the idea that under the Extended Projection Principle there is a local boundary under which a special meaning occurs. This meaning can only occur if a head-projecting morpheme is present within the local domain of the syntactic structure.<ref name="Marantz">Marantz, Alec. 1997.  '[https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1795&context=pwpl No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own Lexicon].' Proceedings of the 21st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium:  Penn Working Papers in Linguistics</ref> The following is an example of the tree structure proposed by distributed morphology for the sentence ''"John's destroying the city"''. ''Destroy'' is the root, V-1 represents verbalization, and D represents nominalization.<ref name="Marantz" />