In this paper, I explore the relation between methods of lexical representation involving decomposition and the theory of types as used in linguistics and programming semantics. I identify two major approaches to lexical decomposition in grammar, what I call parametric and predicative strategies. I

This article is concerned with the ambiguity that arises if a resultative predicate is modified by the adverb again. Intuitively, the semantics of the adverb either operates on the event type expressed by the main predicate, or on its result state type. This effect is illustrated in (1):

Idioms have long been regarded as conforming to some kind of locality requirement constraining the relations between their parts. This requirement has taken various forms in the literature (see Marantz 1996, Nunberg, Sag, and Wasow 1994, and references cited there), and it will not be important here to develop a specific version of it; in the interests of concreteness, we might assume (1), adopted from Koopman and Sportiche 1991. (1) If X is the minimal constituent containing all the idiomatic material, the head of X is part of the idiom. Requirements like (1) have sometimes been used to argue that certain kinds of sentences involve more structure than is immediately apparent on the surface. For instance, given an assumption like (1), the data in (2) have been used to argue for the existence of NP-raising. (2) a. The cat is out of the bag. b. The cat seems to be out of the bag.

Abstract In this contribution, we report on an effort to annotate German data with information relevant to opinion inference. Such information has previously been referred to as effect or couched in terms of eventevaluation functors. We extend the theory and present an extensive scheme that combines both approaches and thus extends the set of inference-relevant predicates. Using these guidelines to annotate 726 German synsets, we achieve good inter-annotator agreement.

of spatial motion and because get shows syntactic peculiarities which are difficult to explain unless one assumes syntactic lexical decomposition. With a goal PP, get forces a punctual interpretation, referring solely to the point where the goal is reached, while go and other motion verbs induce

... structure. As Levin has addressed (Levin 1985), the decomposition of verbs is proposed for the purposes of accounting for systematic semantic-syntactic correspondences. This results in a series of problems for MT systems: inflexible verb sense definitions; difficulty in handling metaphor

This paper is about the interpretation of Japanese ooku-no and takusan-no, which seem to share the same meaning. Both of these items are roughly translated

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problems facing the lexical semantics community, and suggest ways of best approaching these issues. Then, I will provide a method for the decomposition of lexical categories and outline a theory of lexical semantics embodying a notion of cocompositionality and type coercion, as well as several levels

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