Linguistic competence is a term we associate with Chomsky (e.g. 1965: Ch 1), who made the distinction between people’s knowledge of language (competence), and that knowledge put to use in real situations (performance). Competence is an aspect of our mental capacity underlying our use of language. Chomsky’s conception of linguistic competence is purely syntactic, while it is a more comprehensive...

This paper aims to find out the qualia roles involved in metaphorical noun-noun compounds in Mandarin Chinese. Metaphor concerns the resemblance between things. From the perspective of qualia structure proposed by Generative Lexicon, the resemblance in metaphorical compounds can be interpreted in the way that a compound and its metaphorical component share the same quale role. A preliminary inv...

This paper focusses on mental state adjectives and offers a unified analysis in the theory of Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky, 1991, 1995). We show that, instead of enumerating the various syntactic constructions they enter into, with the different senses which arise, it is possible to give them a rich typed semantic representation which will explain both their semantic and syntactic polymorphi...

Abstract. The long-term historical development and broad geographical variation of Chinese character (Hanzi/Kanji) has made it a crosscultural information sharing platform in East Asia. However, due to the lack of proper research framework, the integration of heterogeneous knowledge grounded in Hanzi and its variants has been a thorny problem. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework f...

The felicity of contrast and parallel relations as well as structures such as ellipsis are in part dependent on the presence of lexical elements contrasting or sharing. Traditional dictionaries and lexical resources like WordNet code information about antonyms, yet this is often not the type of polarity found in real contrast or parallel examples. It is not yet clear how negative or positive po...

A Generative Lexicon for Compound Greek Medical Terms based on the ARISTA method is proposed in this paper. The concept of a representation independent definition-generating lexicon for compound words is introduced in this paper following the ARISTA method. This concept is used as a basis for developing a generative lexicon of Greek compound medical terminology using the senses of their compone...

Word-formation has not yet received due attention in ~ e n e r a t i v e grammars , p r o b a b l y becal~se i t i s an i n t e r i m problem between t h a t o f the m o r e o r l e s s c l e a r l y e s t a b l i shed ~orpho-phonological possibilities and the problem of the lexicon, which h~s not yet been worked out (re~ardin~ wor@format ion see the p r o d u c t i v e a t t e m p t s o f Chom...

This paper presents ideas for formally representing and working with prepositions as stand-alone constructs in connection with nouns and verbs, as prefixes, and as connecting constituents in compounds. As main starting points serve (a) Davis’ proto(typical) roles for linking subject and complements of verbs with semantic roles in HPSG, (b) Pustejovsky’s generative lexicon theory, and (c) Cyc’s ...

Virtually all conventional text-based natural language processing techniques – from traditional information retrieval systems to full-fledged parsers – require reference to a fixed lexicon accessed by surface form, typically trained from or constructed for synchronic input text adhering strictly to contemporary orthographic conventions. Unorthodox input such as historical text which violates th...

Proto-Indo-European Lexicon (PIE Lexicon) is the generative etymological dictionary of Indo-European languages. The reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is obtained by applying the comparative method, the output of which equals the Indo-European (IE) data. Due to this the Indo-European sound laws leading from PIE to IE, revised in Pyysalo 2013, can be coded using Finite-State Transducers...