关键词: 组合性; 论元选择生成机制; 物性结构; 语义融合性

Abstract: Considering traditional dictionaries’ failure in accounting for language in use，this paper，from the perspective of Generative Lexicon （GL），aims at exploring dynamic meanings of English verb pour and  thus providing an  interpretation of  its contextual use．This paper deals with four types of constructions that the verb pour can enter and then semantic compatibility that their compositional elements should keep．First，the verb and preposition select  their arguments via generative mechanism of argument selection．In addition，compositional noun’s qualia structure exerts  its effect on  the verb’s  logic polysemy and  its syntactic behavior，such as verb of creation，verb of substance emission， verb of  throwing，etc．that  the verb pour  is specifed with and［N1 V N2］，middle construction as well．It  is also pointed out that the precedence principle should be considered when we observe semantic compatibility．

Keywords: compositionality; generative mechanism of argument selection; qualia structure; semantic compatibility