It is a much-debated issue whether one should assume separate lexical entries for participles used in passive and perfect constructions or whether there is just one lexical entry that is used in different ways depending on whether a passive or perfect auxiliary is present in the clause. In previous work I criticized approaches trying to analyze the passive with one lexical entry for making empi...

It is a much-debated issue whether one should assume separate lexical entries for participles used in passive and perfect constructions or whether there is just one lexical entry that is used in different ways depending on whether a passive or perfect auxiliary is present in the clause. In previous work I criticized approaches trying to analyze the passive with one lexical entry for making empi...

It is a much-debated issue whether one should assume separate lexical entries for participles used in passive and perfect constructions or whether there is just one lexical entry that is used in different ways depending on whether a passive or perfect auxiliary is present in the clause. In previous work I criticized approaches trying to analyze the passive with one lexical entry for making empi...

A system for the generation of sentences is proposed which operates on three levels (constituent, transformational, and lexical) in such a way that there results a simplification in formulation, which is accomplished by allowing the initial symbol S to dominate other occurences of the same symbol S, and by adopting the convention whereby first the constituent structure is generated from highest...

Five phenomena concerning the meanings of words are outlined in this paper. They concern (1) our limited introspective access to the nature of lexical representations; (2) the existence of lexical entries that make accessible the sense of a word; (3) the effects of context on the interpretation of words; (4) the systematic gaps in the acquisition of lexical knowledge; and (5) the existence of d...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a lexicon of Dutch multiword expressions (MWEs). No exhaustive research on a standard lexical representation of MWEs has been done for Dutch before. The approach taken is innovative, since it is based on the Equivalence Class Method. Furthermore, the selection of the lexical entries and their properties is corpus-based. The design of the lex...

The task of choosing between lexical near-equivalents in text generation requires the kind of knowledge of ne di erences between words that is typi ed by the usage notes of dictionaries and books of synonym discrimination. These usage notes follow a fairly standard pattern, and a study of their form and content shows the kinds of di erentiae adduced in the discrimination of nearsynonyms. For ap...

This article focuses on ongoing work done for Portuguese concerning the phenomenon of lexical co-occurrence known as collocation (cf. Cruse, 1986, inter al.). Instances of the syntactic variety formed by noun plus adjective have been especially observed. Collocational instances are not lexical entries, and thus should not be stored in the lexicon as multiword lexical units. Their processing can...

We describe the results of a syntactic-semantic parser for Cobuild dictionary definitions. Unlike previous work on the automatic analysis of machine readable dictionaries, the particular structure of the Cobuild definition allows us to derive information that classifies the lexical item mainly in terms of the selectional restrictions or preferences encoded on its arguments. The resulting formal...