Analyzing Zeugmas in XLFG

Lionel Clément (1, 2) , Kim Gerdes (3)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 SIGNES - Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language
3 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

We expose in this article an LFG analysis and an XLFG implementation of zeugmas in French. We use the term zeugma in the wide sense of including "usual" gapping as well as syllepsis, i.e. the use of the same lemma with different meanings (idiomatic vs. literal reading) in coordinate or comparative constructions.

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Lionel Clément, Kim Gerdes. Analyzing Zeugmas in XLFG. LFG 2006, 2006, Konstanz, Germany. ⟨hal-00413195⟩