Contents

• Fundamental assumptions of the ILEX model
  • Compositionality and the Cognitive Machine
    • The Immediate Dominance Principle
    • The Dependency Principle
  • The Interpretation Principle
    • The QLP domain
    • The logical form domain
  • Metalinguistic ontological distinctions
    • The general and specific object distinction
    • The lexical and virtual object distinction
  • 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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