Editing Lexical semantics (section)

==== Ramchand 2008 ====
In her 2008 book, ''Verb Meaning and The Lexicon: A First-Phase Syntax'', linguist [[Gillian Ramchand]] acknowledges the roles of lexical entries in the selection of complex verbs and their arguments.<ref name="Ramchand" /> 'First-Phase' syntax proposes that event structure and event participants are directly represented in the syntax by means of [[Branching (linguistics)|binary branching]]. This branching ensures that the Specifier is the consistently subject, even when investigating the projection of a complex verb's lexical entry and its corresponding syntactic construction. This generalization is also present in Ramchand's theory that the complement of a head for a complex verb phrase must co-describe the verb's event.

Ramchand also introduced the concept of Homomorphic Unity, which refers to the structural synchronization between the head of a complex verb phrase and its complement. According to Ramchand, Homomorphic Unity is "when two event descriptors are syntactically Merged, the structure of the complement must unify with the structure of the head."<ref name=Ramchand>{{cite book|last1=Ramchand|first1=Gillian|title=Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax|date=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780511486319}}</ref>