Compositionality in the Inheritance Lexicon:
English nouns

Dafydd Gibbon

23 February 1997
(printed March 21, 1997 )

 
• Contents
• Lexical signs and the Inheritance Lexicon
  • Lexical signs
  • Inheritance Lexicon Theory
• Modelling conventions for the Inheritance Lexicon
  • Basic modelling conventions
  • Subsumption hierarchies, taxonomies and generalisation
  • Generalisation hierarchies and inheritance
  • Signs, archi-signs, and generalisation over signs
  • Surface compositionality and semantic compositionality
  • Lexical items as structural semiotic types
• A selection of English noun compound types
• The DATR formalism
  • Theories and models
  • DATR syntax
  • DATR rules of deduction
• An operational DATR model for English compounds
  • Descriptive scope of the model
  • DATR model: lexicon extract
  • Noun inheritance hierarchy
  • Co-interpretation for semantics and surface form
  • Surface interpretation: morphophonemic and morphographemic mapping
• A sample analysis
• Discussion and prospects
• References
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