A compositional semantics for directional modifiers
Erhard Hinrichs · 1986
This paper presents a model-theoretic semantics for directional modifiers in English. The semantic theory presupposed for the analysis is that of Montague Grammar (cf. Montague 1970, 1973) which makes it possible to develop a strongly compositional treatment of directional modifiers. Such a treatment has significant computational advantages over case-based treatments of directional modifiers that are advocated in the Al literature.