Polysemy and Coercion – A Frame-Based Approach Using LTAG and Hybrid Logic
William Babonnaud, Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald · Lecture notes in computer science · 2016
Abstract In this article, we propose an analysis of polysemy and coercion phenomena using a syntax-semantics interface which combines Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar with frame semantics and Hybrid Logic. We show that this framework allows a straightforward and explicit description of selectional mechanisms as well as coercion processes. We illustrate our approach by applying it to examples discussed in Generative Lexicon Theory [23, 25]. This includes the modeling ofdot objectsand associated coercion phenomena in our framework, as well as cases of functional coercion triggered by transitive verbs and adjectives.