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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Generative Lexicon"”.
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Systematic Polysemy in Arabic: A Generative Lexicon-based Account
… test the applicability of Pustejovsky’s (1995) Generative Lexicon (the GL) in accounting for the various Arabic data on polysemy. The study found that nearly every regular polysemous pattern observed in English was also present in Arabic, albeit with a few attested differences. For example, the …
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A critique of emojis in isiXhosa language and expression with a focus on virtual modes of communication
… of communication were explained as well. The generative lexicon theory, employed as the theoretical framework of this research, was further discussed. The data was presented and analyzed through the qualitative approach (discourse content analysis) used in gathering the data. Lastly, the …
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Semantic representations for spatial expressions
… 1996; and Jackendoff 1983, 1990) and the Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovsky 1991, 1995). To describe the meanings of spatial expressions containing prepositions and to study the spatial relationships between the Figure objects and the Ground objects, the semantic representation model I …
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Análisis microcognitivo de los compuestos nominales en un lexicón de inglés contemporáneo
… Conceptual Integration as well as Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon. All of these approaches have been pervasively influenced by a background on connectionism.We have carried out a detailed analysis of a set of compounds according to its morphological, syntactic, semantic, cognitive and pragmatic …
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Verbs of pure change of state in English: projection, constructions and event structure
… and Van Valin (2001) I turn to Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon (GL), which captures lexical meaning by splitting lexical information into four different levels of representation, namely argument structure, qualia structure, event structure and lexical inheritance structure. The close analysis …
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AXEL: A framework to deal with ambiguity in three-noun compounds
… limitation could be overcome with the aid of the Generative Lexicon Theory (GLT). Specifically, this dissertation formulated possible means to marry the GLT and Cognitive Linguistics in a novel rapprochement between the two. This bond between opposing theories provided the means to design a …