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Type Theory and Lexical Decomposition
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- Issue Date
- 2006
- Citation
- Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol.7 No.1, pp. 39-76
- Keywords
- Generative Lexicon ; Iexicalsemantics ; selectional constraints ; qualia structure ; argument structure ; type theory
- Abstract
- In this paper. I explore the relation between methods of lexical representation involving decomposition and the theory of types as used in linguistics and programming semantics. I identify two major approaches to lexical decomposition in grammar, what I call parametric and predicative strategies. I demonstrate how expressions formed with one technique can be translated into expressions of the other. I then discuss argument selection within a type theoretic approach to semantics, and show how the predicative approach to decomposition can be modeled within a type theory with richer selectional mechanisms. In particular, I show how classic Generative Lexicon representations and operations can be viewed in terms of types and selection.
- ISSN
- 1598-2327
- Language
- English
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