With Lexical Integrity

Muller and Wechsler (MW) contrast lexical (lexicalist) and phrasal (constructional) approaches and conclude that a lexical approach is to be preferred. They present a careful review of the arguments that have been presented for both positions, and they also introduce several new arguments for the lexicalist position. The target article is commendable in many respects, including its thoroughness. However, their representation of our position on Lexical Integrity and constructions is not accurate (Asudeh, Dalrymple, and Toivonen 2008, 2013),1 and they use too broad a brush in painting their picture of Germanic motion constructions; sections 2 and 3 below deal respectively with these issues.