This paper presents an analysis of indirect passives in Japanese in terms of event structure and qualia structure proposed in the framework of the generative lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). On the assumption that the event structure of the indirect passive construction is based on the causative structure, the present analysis accounts for the adversative interpretation of indirect passive sentences...

This paper presents the English valency lexicon EngValLex, built within the Functional Generative Description framework. The form of the lexicon, as well as the process of its semi-automatic creation is described. The lexicon describes valency for verbs and also includes links to other lexical sources, namely PropBank. Basic statistics about the lexicon are given. The lexicon will be later used...

1. introduction in addition to simple verbs, persian employs a large number of complex predicates consisting of a preverbal element and a light verb. the preverbal element can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a preposition phrase, which combines with a verb to form a single syntactic predicate. persian complex verbs have attracted some researchers (e.g. folli, harley & karimi 2005, karimi ...

We propose a spatio-temporal markup for the annotation of motion predicates in text, informed by a lexical semantic classification of these verbs. We incorporate this classification within a spatial event structure, based on Generative Lexicon Theory. We discuss how the spatial event structure suggests changes to annotation systems designed solely for temporal or spatial phenomena, resulting in...

This paper presents and evaluates a system extracting from a corpus noun-verb pairs whose components are related by a special kind of link: the qualia roles as defined in the Generative Lexicon. This system is based on a symbolic learning method that automatically learns, from noun-verb pairs that are or are not related by a qualia link, rules characterizing positive examples from negative ones...

This research aims to integrate embodiment with generative lexicon. By analyzing the metaphorically used human body part terms in Sinica Corpus, the first balanced modern Chinese corpus, we reveal how these two theories complement each other. Embodiment strengthens generative lexicon by spelling out the cognitive reasons which underlies the production of meaning, and generative lexicon, specifi...

We propose a lexical account of action nominals, in particular of deverbal nom-inalisations, whose meaning is related to the event expressed by their base verb. The literature about nominalisations often assumes that the semantics of the base verb completely defines the structure of action nominals. We argue that the information in the base verb is not sufficient to completely determine the sem...

This paper suggests that Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovsky, 1995, 2006, 2011) offers a new analysis of numeral classifiers, focusing on Japanese having various kinds of classifiers. It is often said that classifiers agree with quantified nouns, that is, the nouns have to match the semantic requirements of the classifiers. This paper examines their lexical structures and compositional mecha...

Generative Lexicon theory (GL) establishes three mechanisms at work when a predicate selects an argument, i.e. pure selection, accommodation and type coercion. They are widely used in verbal selection of nouns in the entity domain. However, little attention has been devoted to the compositionality of [N1+event noun] type NN compounds. This paper extends the usage of these mechanisms in two ways...

This article reports on a preliminary work on the use of a Generative Lexicon based lexical resource to resolve bridging anaphors in Italian. The results obtained, though not very satisfying, seem to support the use of such a resource with respect to WordNet-like ones due to the wider range of bridging anaphors which can be treated.