Title
Logical Metonymy in a Distributional Model of Sentence Comprehension.
Abstract
In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event-subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (e.g., The author began the book), so that the interpretation of the VP requires the retrieval of a covert event (e.g., writing). Psycholinguistic studies have revealed extra processing costs for logical metonymy, a phenomenon generally explained with the introduction of new semantic structure. In this paper, we present a general distributional model for sentence comprehension inspired by the Memory, Unification and Control model by Hagoort (2013, 2016). We show that our distributional framework can account for the extra processing costs of logical metonymy and can identify the covert event in a classification task.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
*SEM
Verb,Theoretical linguistics,Computer science,Unification,Covert,Phenomenon,Metonymy,Linguistics,Sentence,Comprehension
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emmanuele Chersoni102.37
Alessandro Lenci263361.92
Philippe Blache312038.21