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Lexical syntax in ILEX/DATR:
Motivation and illustration

Dafydd Gibbon
U Bielefeld, 25 June 1996

• Contents
• Fundamental assumptions of the ILEX model
  • Compositionality and the Cognitive Machine
  • The Interpretation Principle
  • Metalinguistic ontological distinctions
  • The abstract and concrete object distinction
• Modelling conventions for the ILEX model in DATR
  • Declarations
  • Specific virtual object descriptions
  • Specific lexical object descriptions
  • General object descriptions (virtual and lexical)
• Inference of surface forms from object specifications
• Discussion
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