Lexical Representation

 

 
• Introduction
• Jackendoff and syntactically-relevant semantics
  • Components of Jackendoff's Conceptual Semantics
    • Semantic Decomposition
    • A Semantic Ontology
    • Thematic role relations
    • Functions relating entities
  • Jackendoff and inferences
    • Thematic role relations
    • Functions relating entities
    • Selectional restrictions
  • Conclusions
• Conceptual Structure and HPSG
  • Lexical Semantics in HPSG
    • Nouns in HPSG
    • Verbs in HPSG
    • Utility of the representation
  • Incorporation of Jackendoff's theory into HPSG
• Davis' multiple-inheritance lexical semantics
  • Davis' relation types
  • Comparison with Jackendoff (1983, 1990)
    • Functions vs. Relations
    • States and Events
    • Extended relations
    • Polysemy
  • Necessary Extensions
    • Nominals
    • Preposition semantics
    • A situation index
    • Defaults
    • Summary
• Verb semantics
  • Internal and External verb semantics
  • Formalisation of the representation within HPSG
  • An example of the representation
• Nominal semantics
• Conclusions