Formal foundation of lexical functions
Sylvain Kahane, Alain Polguère · 2001
Lexical functions were introduced in Meaning-Text theory to account for two interrelated families of lexical relations: semantic derivations and collocations. However, the language traditionally used in Meaning-Text lexicography for encoding lexical functions is not fully specified from a formal point of view. In this paper, we propose a formal foundation for lexical functions based on two complementary encoding devices which we believe are computationally tractable and fill the gaps of the traditional formal language of lexical functions. 1