A Montagovian Generative Lexicon

Bruno Mery (1, 2) , Christian Bassac (2, 3) , Christian Retoré (1, 2)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 SIGNES - Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language
3 ERSS - Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique

Generative Lexical Semantics aims, among other things, to model co-compositional meanings that classical Montague semantics is unable to express. This paper outlines a simple extension of Montague semantics which amends the standard compositional mechanisms for the use of specific terms provided by the lexicon, in order to account for this theory. We hope that such a logical system would prove both simpler and easier to implement than the formulations currently used.

Mots clés: Computational Semantics; Montague Semantics; Type Theory; Lexical Semantics; Generative Lexicon

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Bruno Mery, Christian Bassac, Christian Retoré. A Montagovian Generative Lexicon. 12th conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2007), FoLLI, Aug 2007, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨inria-00287340⟩