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The granularity of lexical semantic decomposition in Davis'
representations generally is based on what is required for linking
semantic arguments to syntactic positions. The representation
corresponds to a great extent almost directly to Jackendoff's
Conceptual Structure representation, since Jackendoff also looks to
variations in syntactic form as an indicator of what needs to be
represented in the underlying semantics. What Jackendoff represents
in terms of a limited set of functions which relate conceptual
constituents, Davis formalises as semantic relation sorts.