La teoría temática y las modalidades de descarga argumental : una propuesta restrictiva

Abstract

The development of Thematic Theory as one of the modules of Generative Grammar has contributed to the solution of one the first problems detected in the old transformational model: the basic syntactic structures of the grammar were made explicit twice, in the phrase structure component and in the subcategorization frame of every lexical item. GB Model eliminates the first of these components and develops the idea that every lexical item controls its syntactic development in accordance with thematic requisites that derives from its meaning. This article analyzes, however, the progressive desemantization of Thematic Theory in the last times and how this permits its relation with facts before far from its competence.