Intra-sentential context effects on the interpretation of logical metonymy
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Intra-sentential context effects on the interpretation of logical metonymy
Verbs such as enjoy in the student enjoyed the book exhibit logical metonymy: enjoy is interpreted as enjoy reading. Theoretical work (Pustejovsky, 1991, 1995) predicts that this interpretation can be influenced by intra-sentential context, e.g., by the subject of enjoy. In this article, we test this prediction using a completion experiment and find that the interpretation of a metonymic verb i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1016/s0364-0213(03)00035-1