Linking by Types in the Heirarchical Lexicon

by Davis, Anthony R.

• ISBN13: 9781575862248
• ISBN10: 1575862247
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study

Summary

Actions are described by verbs whose subjects, objects, and other complements refer to various participants in those actions. What linguistic principles determine which participants are referred to by each component of a verb? Many previous approaches to this problem have employed a set of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, to classify varieties of participants. The alternative developed here fits within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar while utilizing typed feature structures, certain basic features of verb meaning, a hierarchical classification of verb meanings, and constraints from more general to more specific word classes. Relying on no special mechanisms or components of grammar, this book is unique in its ability to account for the observed range of verb types in human languages with a simple yet widely applicable set of principles.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
Linking	1	(3)
Subcategorization Alternations	4	(2)
Specifying Redundant Lexical Information in a Multiple Inheritance Hierarchy	6	(6)
Linking as Constraints in the Hierarchical Lexicon	12	(1)
Overview of the Book	13	(4)
Thematic Roles and Lexical Entailments in Linking Theories	17	(58)
Conceptions of Thematic Roles	17	(1)
Thematic Roles as Primitive Elements	18	(7)
The Thematic Hierarchy	25	(6)
The Thematic Hierarchy in Lexical Mapping Theory	31	(11)
Some Other Recent Approaches to Linking	42	(19)
Dowty on Proto-Roles and Argument Selection	61	(12)
Conclusion	73	(2)
Lexical Semantic Relations and Structures	75	(80)
Overview	75	(2)
The Use of Entailments in a Multiple Inheritance Hierarchy	77	(13)
Constructing the Hierarchy of Lexical Semantic Relations	90	(44)
Lexical Semantic Relations and Subcategorization Alternations	134	(18)
Conclusion	152	(3)
HPSG: A Brief Description and Some Revisions	155	(14)
Overview of HPSG	155	(4)
Some Revisions to ``Standard'' HPSG	159	(10)
Linking Constraints in the Lexical Hierarchy	169	(56)
Constraints on Mapping Between Lexical Semantics and Syntax	169	(7)
Linking Constraints in a Strongly Grounded Lexical Hierarchy	176	(10)
The Interaction of Semantics and Subcategorization	186	(37)
Summary	223	(2)
Further Issues in Constraint-Based Linking	225	(46)
Overview	225	(1)
Prepositional Complements and Content-sharing	225	(19)
Passive Verbs and 'By' Phrases	244	(18)
The Problem of Role-argument Uniqueness	262	(6)
Conclusion	268	(3)
Conclusions and Prospects	271	(19)
Summary	271	(7)
Some Speculations, Questions, and Problems	278	(12)
References	290	(8)
Index	298