Participación du lexique à l'elaboration de la syntaxe. Participation de la syntaxe à l'elaboration du sens

Abstract

The role of lexicon in the syntax and semantics of a sentence requires a critical assessment of the relationship which exists between lexical meanings; denotative or connotative; and the grammar of a language. That is to say; the extent to which grammar organizes the meaning of the sentence as well as the discourse.
What is important then; is to give lexicon its place in structural linguistics by demonstrating the importance that the semantic contents of lexical units have on the syntactic behavior of the lexemes in question.
This article postulates that syntax is not arrived at ex nihilo nihil but may be induced from the linguistic affinities among lexical elements. Also; if we accept that syntax contributes to meaning; than it in fact specifies the internal relationship of the elements in a semantic-syntactic relationship rather than a syntactic-semantic one.