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.
Maintained by Stefan Müller
Created: October 18, 2004
Last modified: March 10, 2008
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