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Selectional mechanics in language| old_uid | 2908 |
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| title | Selectional mechanics in language |
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| start_date | 2007/05/25 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 131 |
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| summary | This conference examines the behavior of selection in language. Selection is that property of a word or phrase which determines the paradigmatic behavior of its neighbors. Predicates select arguments; but what is selected for, a type, a feature, something else? Is selection defeasible? Do arguments themselves have any selectional properties? Do grammatical functions have selectional behavior?
In this course, we study the formal mechanisms responsible for argument and adjunct selection in language. I will present a theory of lexically type-driven semantic selection that expands the operations available in composition. Building explicitly on Generative Lexicon's richer inventory of compositionality, I explore the type language and logic necessary to model the mechanics of selection. Words encode local context as typing information. The compositional rules of the language refer to these types. The operations possible during composition for these types are: i. selection, ii. accommodation, and iii. coercion (exploitation and introduction). As an illustration of this theory, I explore the phenomena of nominal and verbal polysemy, and verbal alternations. |
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| responsibles | SardaXX |
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