Abstract The present article addresses the problem of syntax-semantics mapping of syntactically complex structures that are interpreted as semantically simple terms. While these morphosyntactic mechanisms have been successfully applied to roots in Marantz’s framework, more complex structures turn out to be formally and conceptually challenging. To solve these problems, I make use of Cooper’s type-theoretic framework to propose a formal account of Transfer. I apply this to verbal idioms and direct quotation, whose parts do not obtain the idiomatic/quotational reading. The main result is a formal account of light heads providing the operation of predicate formation within cyclic derivations.

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光头和谓词形成：关于不连续的两个范围

摘要 本文解决了句法复杂结构的句法语义映射问题，这些结构被解释为语义上简单的术语。虽然这些形态句法机制已成功应用于 Marantz 框架的根源，但更复杂的结构在形式上和概念上都具有挑战性。为了解决这些问题，我利用 Cooper 的类型论框架提出了一个正式的 Transfer 说明。我将此应用于口头习语和直接引语，其部分没有获得惯用语/引语阅读。主要结果是对轻量级的正式描述，提供了循环推导中谓词形成的操作。