Functional frames in the interpretation of weak nominals
This paper argues that so-called
weak nominals
, like the definite object in
listen to the radio
and the bare nominal in
watch television
, should be analyzed against the background of
functional frames
, representations of stereotypical use of certain common objects. In this way the compositional semantic analysis of weak nominals can be grounded in the lexical semantics of telic roles and frames that originates from computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology.
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