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Publication details [#28750]

Fontenelle, Thierry. 1996. Structural regularities vs. definition patterns: A riposte to Boguraev. ITL 113 - 114 : 321–334.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

causative verb | computational linguistics | definition | dictionary | inchoative

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper criticizes Boguraev's claim that the verb property of causative/inchoative alternation is reflected in the structure rather than in the language of dictionary definitions. It is argued that this strategy is not sufficiently selective.