Optimizing Interpretation from a Generative Lexicon: a case study of Metonymic Type Coercion in modified nouns
Marlies Kluck, K. Kanzani, Pierrette Bouillon, Laurence Danlos · University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 2007
This paper concerns the interpretation effect that is called Metonymic Type Coercion (MTC). MTC typically involves a shift from object to image, and seems to be triggered by the combination of lexical entries. It will be argued that the current operations as proposed in GL (Pustejovsky 1995) cannot account for the shift in interpretation characteristic for MTC. I will propose an account of MTC built on GL, but integrated in the framework of Optimality Theory.