Inferring Covert Events in Logical Metonymies: a Probe Recognition Experiment
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2012
It has been widely acknowledged that the interpretation of logical metonymies involves the interpretation of covert events (begin the book → reading / writing).Whether this implicit content is part of our lexicon or rather derives from general pragmatic inference, it is currently subject of debate.We present results from a probe recognition experiment, providing novel evidence in support of early metonymy processing, consistent with the hypothesis that covert events are retrieved from knowledge of typical events activated by lexical items.