R̥gvedic depictive adjectival compounds and their functions

Adjectival Passives and Adjectival Decausatives in Hebrew

Classification Of Adjectival And Non-Adjectival Nouns Based On Their Semantic Behavior By Using A Self-Organizing Semantic Map

We treat nouns that behave adjectively, which we call adjectival nouns, extracted from large corpora. For example, in “financial world” and “world of finance,” “financial” and “finance” are different parts of speech, but their semantic behaviors are similar to each other. We investigate how adjectival nouns are similar to adjectives and different from non-adjectival nouns by using self-organizi...

Depictive Seeing and Double Content

A picture provides both configurational content concerning its design features, and recognitional content about its external subject. But how is this possible, since all that a viewer can actually see is the picture's own design? I argue that the most plausible explanation is that a picture's design has a dual function. It both encodes artistically relevant design content, and in turn that desi...

Adjectival modification and gradation

Detecting and ordering adjectival scalemates

This paper presents a pattern-based method that can be used to infer adjectival scales, such as 〈lukewarm,warm, hot〉, from a corpus. Specifically, the proposed method uses lexical patterns to automatically identify and order pairs of scalemates, followed by a filtering phase in which unrelated pairs are discarded. For the filtering phase, several different similarity measures are implemented an...