When GL meets the corpus: a data-driven investigation of semantic types and coercion phenomena
Elisabetta Ježek, Alessandro Lenci · 2007
In this paper we present an analysis of corpus-derived V-Object combinations aiming to provide a data-driven characterization of Semantic Types (STs) and improve our understanding of how types behave compositionally, i.e. how they enter compositional processes and are modulated by them. As a theoretical framework, we adopt the enriched compositional rules and the type system as presented in Pustejovsky (2007). Our main concerns are twofold: i.) first of all, we will show with a specific case-study how a data-driven investigation can shed light on the organization of the type system and on