The Roots of Verbal Meaning.

BKG adopt an event structural approach to verb meaning whereby verbs are assumed to consist of an event structure that decomposes into event templates and roots. Similarly, in terms of idiosyncratic meaning, BKG note that there do not appear to be limits in how much idiosyncratic meaning roots can entail, recapping Grimshaw (2005). By doing so, BKG ultimately lay out a theory of verb meaning that has predictive power with regards to possible verb classes. The theory that BKG lays out regarding root meaning is of particular theoretical relevance since the role that roots play in meaning composition has generally been neglected. [Extracted from the article]