The lexical semantics of adjectives: more than just scales

Morzycki, Marcin

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“…(For further discussion on modified nominals see: Heim and Kratzer 1998, sec. 4.3;Morzycki 2013). 12 Here is a rough argument for this.…”

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Descriptions and non-doxastic attitude ascriptions

Rostworowski

2017

Philos Stud

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This paper addresses a certain objection to the quantificational theory of definite descriptions. According to this objection, the quantificational account cannot provide correct interpretations of definite descriptions embedded in the nondoxastic attitude ascriptions and therefore ought to be rejected. In brief, the objection says that the quantificational theory is committed to the view that a sentence of the form ''The F is G'' is equivalent to the claim that there is a unique F and it is G, while the ascription such as, e.g., ''S wants the F to be G'' is not equivalent to the statement that S wants there to be a (unique) F and for it to be G. I argue that this objection is invalid as it rests on a false assumption concerning the substitutivity of the relative clauses in the non-doxastic attitude ascriptions.

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“…(For further discussion on modified nominals see: Heim and Kratzer 1998, sec. 4.3;Morzycki 2013). 12 Here is a rough argument for this.…”

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Descriptions and non-doxastic attitude ascriptions

Rostworowski

2017

Philos Stud

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“…In this work, we focus on a particular kind of construction of neologisms, that is neologisms where the term consists of a single adjective and a noun. The reason for this focus is driven by the idea that the semantics of adjectives is complex in terms of their semantic compositionality (McCrae et al, 2014) and this can be broadly broken down into three categories, intersective, subsective and privative adjectives (Partee, 2003;Bouillon and Viegas, 1999;Morzycki, 2015). We use WordNet as the principle background knowledge and thus rely on the judgement of the WordNet lexicographers in order to deduce if a particular adjectivenoun combination is a neologism.…”

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Identification of Adjective-Noun Neologisms using Pretrained Language Models

McCrae

2019

Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019)

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Neologism detection is a key task in the constructing of lexical resources and has wider implications for NLP, however the identification of multiword neologisms has received little attention. In this paper, we show that we can effectively identify the distinction between compositional and non-compositional adjective-noun pairs by using pretrained language models and comparing this with individual word embeddings. Our results show that the use of these models significantly improves over baseline linguistic features, however the combination with linguistic features still further improves the results, suggesting the strength of a hybrid approach.

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“…Unfortunately, I did not have access to Siegel's original document while writing this paper, thus the way her proposal is presented here is taken from indirect sources such asLarson (1998) andMorzycki (2013).…”

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Ambiguous adjectives in French: the case of “gros” when combined with deverbal nouns

Tual

2016

linguistica

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In this paper, I analysed the interaction between the French adjective “gros” and -eur deverbal nouns. This adjective gives rise to a preferred non-intersective reading when it is in a prenominal position, but only an intersective reading when it appears after the noun. I claim that it is necessary to take into account both the semantics of the adjective and the semantics of the noun to account for the ambiguity present at the DP-level (a “blame both” analysis). An abstract operator, eur, is always present within deverbal nouns such as “fumeur” (“smoker”), and is partially responsible for the interpretation of the DP: if the adjective is within the scope of this operator, the DP will assume a non-intersective reading, whereas when it is outside of its scope, the DP bears an intersective interpretation. The adjective “gros” itself actually has two semantic values: one modifies the event argument present in deverbal nouns, and the other modifies the individual argument of the noun (the agent of the verbal root).

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The lexical semantics of adjectives: more than just scales

Cited by 6 publications

References 116 publications

Descriptions and non-doxastic attitude ascriptions

Descriptions and non-doxastic attitude ascriptions

Identification of Adjective-Noun Neologisms using Pretrained Language Models

Ambiguous adjectives in French: the case of “gros” when combined with deverbal nouns

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