LEXICAL COMPLEX IN KHMER: «UNNECESSARY VERBOSITY» OR ELABORATION OF MEANING?

Models of lexical meaning

Grounding Lexical Meaning in Core Cognition

Author’s note: This document is a slightly updated and reformatted extract from a grant proposal to the ONR. As a proposal, it aims describe useful directions while reviewing existing and pilot work; it has no pretensions to being a systematic, rigorous, or entirely coherent scholarly work. On the other hand, I’ve found that it provides a useful overview of a few ideas on the architecture of na...

Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning

Much of this Handbook is based on ideas from Formal Semantics, in which the meanings of phrases or sentences are represented in terms of set-theoretic models. The key intuition behind Formal Semantics, very roughly, is that the world is full of objects; objects have properties; and relations hold between objects. Set-theoretic models are ideal for capturing this intuition, and have been succces...

Signalling Elaboration: Combining Gerund Clauses with Lexical Cues

In this paper, we aim at automatically identifying Elaboration. This relation is particularly difficult to spot since it does not have prototypical markers. Our approach focuses on an ambiguous syntactic pattern, the gerund clause, combined with lexical cues. This approach allows us to detect few but accurate cases of inner sentence Elaborations in our corpus, validating the fact that lexical c...

Meaning-Text-Theory and Lexical Frames

We discuss the relationship between FrameNet and Meaning-Text Theory. We propose that the notion of frame can be used in MTT in order to give the conversive lexical function both a broader and a more precise definition. We include a discussion of some issues related to importing the FrameNet lexicon to MTT.