Making sense of adjectives: association vs. ascription in a familyresemblance model of semantic inheritance  

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Shore, Todd

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 7 no. 3 (Mar. 2010), page 2-18.
Topik: lexical semantics; adjectives; modification; predication; similarity; family resemblance; ontology
Fulltext: Todd Shore.pdf (290.04KB)

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Associative adjectives such as in electrical engineer differ from ascriptive adjectives like in red house: They are syntactically similar, yet they do not denote an intersective sense like ascriptive adjectives do. However, associative adjectives may (irregularly) denote ascriptive traits connected to the associated entity: The more semanticallysimilar two entities are, the more regular the traits are which are ascribed to them through association by a given adjective. This model of entities associated through family membership is analogous to a semantic network based on relative word similarities, in which families appear as clusters of relatively-similar entities.

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