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On the syntax-semantics interface in word formation: The case of English -er nominalizations Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez María Jesús Pérez Quintero 1. Setting the scene: Word formation in FG and the FLM1 In many respects, the Functional Lexematic Model (hereafter, FLM) can be described as a naturally enriched version of the lexical com- ponent - or Fund - of Functional Grammar (henceforth, FG): from its original formulation (Martin Mingorance 1984a, 1984b, 1985, 1987) it has integrated the contributions of other models (such as lexematics - Coseriu 1978, 1981 - and cognitive semantics - Lan- gacker 1987, 1991) to endow the lexicon with an internal organiza- tion that appears to be more in consonance with the way words are stored in the mental lexicon of the Natural Language Users. More recently (Faber and Mairal 1999), attention is being paid to illumi- nate the motivating nature of semantic representations for syntactic behavior and alternations. In fact, there is a number of studies within several grammatical models (Foley and Van Valin 1984; Van Valin 1993; Van Valin and LaPolla 1997, within Role and Reference Grammar - henceforth, RRG - , Goldbergs 1995 Construction Grammar or the works of Rappaport and Levin 1998, by way of ex- ample), that have paid attention - some have even centered almost exclusively on the issue - to the interdependence of the semantics of different lexical classes with certain phenomena of syntactic alterna- tion that affect the members of those classes. Though the proposals vary, all of them recognize the motivating nature of some of the meaning components of words for the explanation of the syntactic variability of those words. Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services