A central concern of research in lexical semantics is the formulation of a representation that makes explicit the semantic relations between a verb and its arguments, as well as other aspects of the meaning of a verb related to its status as an argument - taking lexical item. In this chapter a representation specifically designed for this purpose is referred to as a "lexical semantic representation".
- Levin (2004), Pag. 301

In a second set of proposal, the lexical semantic representation takes the form of predicate decomposition. The assumption behind these proposals is that the meaning of a verb is composed of a number of primitive predicates.
- Levin (2004), Pag. 324

The lexical semantic representation, then, could simply take the form of lists of the arguments that a verb requires identified by their semantic role.
- Levin (2004), Pag. 310