In this paper we investigate the role of lexical information, as outlined and exemplified in the first paper of this volume, in inferencing from semantic representations (DRSs) of miniature texts. Besides lexical entries for certain verbs we also study the inferential role of the word wieder (again). Since the semantic contributions made by wieder are presuppositional in nature, a large part of the paper is concerned with presupposition. Special attention will be given to the subtle connections between presupposition verification and presupposition accommodation.
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The research reported in this paper was carried out as part of SFB 340, Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen f r die Computerlinguistik (Teilprojekt C3, Aspekte der Konstruktion semantischer Repr sentationen von Texten). We thank
This chapter investigates the contribution of roots to the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs. The principal question is: how can the semantics of verbs be constructed from their roots? The chapter constructs Discourse Representation Structures (DRS) from word-syntactic representation in the spirit of Distributed Morphology (DM). Roots can be considered to be events, stative properties, or entities: subtle differences show up when it comes to deciding how to implement the consequences of these three categories in a syntax-semantics interface.
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