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SIGLEX
1991
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Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer
SIGLEX
1991
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Conventional Metaphor and the Lexicon
Metaphor and other forms of non-literal language are essential parts of language which have direct bearing on theories of lexical semantics. Neither narrow theories of lexical sem...
James H. Martin
SIGLEX
1991
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Aspectual Requirements of Temporal Connectives: Evidence for a Two-Level Approach to Semantics
This paper argues for a two-level theory of semantics as opposed to a one-level theory, based on the example of the system of temporal and durationM connectives. Instead of identi...
Michael Herweg
SIGLEX
1991
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For the Lexicon that Has Everything
This paper argues that itisimpossible to separate lexicaland encyclopedic knowledge and describes an attempt to build a large lexical database that contains the range of informati...
Martha W. Evens, Joanne Dardaine, Yu-Feng Huang, S...
SIGLEX
1991
13 years 7 months ago
Lexical Operations in a Unification-Based Framework
We consider lexicM operations and their representation in a unification based lexicon and the role of lexical semantic information. We describe a unified treatment of the linguist...
Ann A. Copestake, Ted Briscoe