Title
A Compositional Treatment of Polysemous Arguments in Categorial Grammar
Abstract
We discuss an extension of the standard logical rules (functional application and abstraction) in Categorial Grammar (CG), in order to deal with some specific cases of polysemy. We borrow from Gener- ative Lexicon theory which proposes the mechanism of coercion, next to a rich nominal lexical semantic structure called qualia structure. In a previous paper we introduced coercion into the framework of sign-based Categorial Grammar and investigated its impact on traditional Fregean compositionality. In this paper we will elabo- rate on this idea, mostly working towards the introduction of a new semantic dimension. Where in current versions of sign-based Cate- gorial Grammar only two representations are derived: a prosodic one (form) and a logical one (modelling), here we introduce also a more detaled representation of the lexical semantics. This extra knowledge will serve to account for linguistic phenomena like metonymy.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1995
Computing Research Repository
categorial grammar,lexical semantics,generative lexicon
Field
DocType
Volume
Principle of compositionality,Link grammar,Computer science,Emergent grammar,Lexical functional grammar,Combinatory categorial grammar,Generative lexicon,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Categorial grammar,Generative grammar,Linguistics
Journal
abs/cmp-lg/9508002
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.46
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anne-marie Mineur1202.48
Paul Buitelaar210.46