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Dan Flickinger and Emily Bender: Semantic Selection in a Cross-Linguistic Framework

This paper discusses support in the LinGO Grammar Matrix (Bender et al 2002) for describing semantic selection. We first distinguish between defeasible semantic constraints and `grammaticized' semantic selection which actually pertains to grammaticality/ungrammaticality. We argue that the operation of unification is only appropriate to the latter, and therefore only support the latter in the Matrix. Our overall strategy is to license all grammatical sentences, even unlikely ones, while ruling out ungrammatical strings. There are two mechanisms of semantic selection, corresponding to the semantic and syntactic head paths: a feature SORT on indices and a feature KEY inside HEAD.


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Created: October 18, 2004
Last modified: March 10, 2008

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