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The Generative Lexicon
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In this paper, I will discuss four major topics relating to current research in lexical semantics: methodology, descriptive coverage, adequacy of the representation, and the computational usefulness of representations. In addressing these issues, I will discuss what I think are some of the central problems facing the lexical semantics community, and suggest ways of best approaching these issues. Then, I will provide a method for the decomposition of lexical categories and outline a theory of lexical semantics embodying a notion of cocompositionality and type coercion, as well as several levels of semantic description, where the semantic load is spread more evenly throughout the lexicon. I argue that lexical decomposition is possible if it is performed generatively. Rather than assuming a fixed set of primitives, I will assume a fixed number of generative devices that can be seen as constructing semantic expressions.
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- Authors
- Pustejovsky, J.
- Venue
- Semantics
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York, NY
- Published
- 2004-11-18
- Pages
- 369-393
- OpenAlex
- W1572948005
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- 3,963
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 204.85
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- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
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