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Event Semantics
(Routledge, 2016)
The point of talking is to describe the way the world is, the way it changes or stays the same. Verbs play a critical role in that endeavor. Intuitively, verbs (or, more precisely, verb senses) describe categories of ...
Morpholexical transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking
(De Gruyter, 2007)
Guerssel et al.’s 1985 generalizations regarding the argument structure of verbs of
cutting and breaking (C&B) are reanalyzed based on the principles of Morpholexical
Transparency and Complete Linking. A working hypothesis ...
Linearization-based word-part ellipsis
(Springer Verlag, 2008)
This paper addresses a phenomenon in which certain word-parts can be
omitted. The evidence shows that the full range of data cannot be captured
by a sublexical analysis, since the phenomena can be observed both in ...
Meaning and context: German aber and sondern
(CSLI Publications, 1998)
What is a possible word meaning? What is the range of meaning distinctions to which particular words can be sensitive? Such questions have been at the forefront of research in lexical semantics in recent years (see Talmy ...
Scalarity and state changes in Mandarin (and other languages)
(CSSP, 2008)
One of the goals of lexical semantics is to delineate the space of possiblemeanings,
how it varies across language, and to compare that space with what we know of conceptual
space. Vendler (1967), Dowty (1979), Carter ...
Linking constructions vs. linking rules: evidence from French
(Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1993)
Complex landscape terms in Seri
(Elsevier, 2008)
The nominal lexicon of Seri is characterized by a prevalence of analytical
descriptive terms. We explore the consequences of this typological trait in the
landscape domain. The complex landscape terms of Seri classify ...
Semantic unity and constructional particularity: the French se faire construction
(Berkeley Linguistic Society, 1992)
French, as most o!her Romance languages, contains many non-coreferential uses
of !he reflexive. The constructions involved are well-known and are in gener<ll studied in
!he context of mono-clausal or uni-predicate ...
Enriching Wordnets with new relations and with event and argument structures
(Springer Verlag, 2006)
This paper argues that wordnets, being concept-based computational
lexica, should include information on event and argument
structures. This general approach is relevant both for allowing computational
grammars to cope ...
The interface between Syntax and Semantics
(Elsevier, 2006)