A Type-Theoretic Account of Neg-Raising Predicates in Tree Adjoining Grammars

Laurence Danlos (1) , Philippe de Groote (2) , Sylvain Pogodalla (2)

1 ALPAGE - Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle ; Large-scale deep linguistic processing
2 SEMAGRAMME - Semantic Analysis of Natural Language

Neg-Raising (NR) verbs form a class of verbs with a clausal complement that show the following behavior: when a negation syntactically attaches to the matrix predicate, it can semantically attach to the embedded predicate. This paper presents an account of NR predicates within Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG). We propose a lexical semantic interpretation that heavily relies on a Montague-like semantics for TAG and on higher-order types.

Mots clés: neg-raising; type the- ory; እ -calculus; semantics; Tree Adjoining Grammar

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Laurence Danlos, Philippe de Groote, Sylvain Pogodalla. A Type-Theoretic Account of Neg-Raising Predicates in Tree Adjoining Grammars. Yukiko Nakano and Ken Satoh and Daisuke Bekki. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2013 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, AAA, and DDS, Kanagawa, Japan, October 27-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, 8417, Springer International Publishing, pp.3-16, 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-319-10060-9. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-10061-6_1⟩. ⟨hal-00868382⟩