Concepts across categories

نویسندگان

  • Hilke Reckman
  • Crit Cremers
چکیده

Verbs or adjectives and their nominalizations and certain adverb adjective pairs can be argued to introduce the same concept. This can be shown through inference patterns, which can be explained if we assume Davidsonian eventualities underlying all predicates. We make a contribution to the underlying state discussion by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of Davidsonian versus Kimian states for statives such as copular predicates. Findings are implemented in our parser Delilah.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006