Lexical representation and modification within the noun phrase

Formal semanticists of natural language have traditionally worked with/nrelatively impoverished lexical representations and have generally been/nconservative in drawing the line between those aspects of interpretation which/nare determined by lexical information and composition rules, and those whic...

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Autor: McNally, Louise, 1965-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/22829
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/22829
http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rlv.1395
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lexicologia
Semantics
Lexicon modification
Noun phrases
Generative lexicon
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Sumario:Formal semanticists of natural language have traditionally worked with/nrelatively impoverished lexical representations and have generally been/nconservative in drawing the line between those aspects of interpretation which/nare determined by lexical information and composition rules, and those which/nare determined contextually, leaving a substantial amount of work to context./nWhile this strategy is justifiable if one considers the job of the semanticist to/naccount only for what is strictly entailed, it has also in some sense greatly/nsimplified this job, resulting in rather impoverished lexical representations/nand relegating many problems to the so-called pragmatics wastebasket, if in a/nrelatively orderly fashion./nNonetheless, in this paper I discuss two kinds of problems, both related to/nmodification within the noun phrase, which show why richer lexical/nrepresentations similar to those proposed in Generative Lexicon theory/n(Pustejovsky 1995) should be of interest to formal semanticists.