Theory and evidence in semantics /
Hinrichs, Erhard W.
Nerbonne, John A.,1951-
Dowty, David R.
[Stanford, Calif.] : Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University,
c2009.
Papers from a one day symposium, Theory and Evidence in Semantics, held June 1, 2006, at the University of Groningen, in honor of David Dowty.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contributors -- Introducing theory and evidence in semantics / Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne -- Acknowledgments -- Reconstruction as delayed evaluation / Chris Barker -- Selectional preferences for anaphora resolution / Erhard Hinrichs and Holger Wunsch -- The swarm alternation revisited / Jack Hoeksema -- Representations or meanings? / Pauline Jacobson -- Approximate interpretations of number words / Manfred Krifka -- Compositional interpretation / Peter N. Lasersohn -- Quantitatively detecting semantic relations / John Nerbonne and Tim Van de Cruys -- Know-how: a compositional approach / Craige Roberts -- Cells and paradigms in inflectional semantics / Gregory Stump -- Right-node wrapping / Neal Whitman -- Index.
Semantics
Semantics, Comparative