3. Frame Semantics
Jean-Mark Gawron · 2019
Frames are conceptual structures that provide context for elements of interpretation; their primary role in an account of text understanding is to explain how our text interpretations can leap far beyond what the text literally says. The present article explores the role of frames in providing a principled account of the openness and richness of word-meanings, distinguishing a framebased account from classical approaches, such as accounts based on conceptual primitives, lexical fields, and connotation, and showing how they can play a role in the account of how word meaning interacts with syntactic valence.