Conceptual Structure and its Relation to the Structure of Lexical Entries

Recent work in generative grammar and the theory of the lexicon (Guerssel et al. 1983, Hale and Keyser 1987, Jackendoff 1983, Levin and Rappaport 1986) posits a level of linguistic representation, referred to as Lexical Conceptual Structure (LCS), at which syntactic and semantic properties of lexical items, and certain regularities between the two sets of properties are represented. LCS represents an improvement from the simple sets of features used to represent word meanings in early semantic theories (e.g. Katz and Fodor 1963) to a powerful notation for expressing predicate-argument and other kinds of semantic relations in natural language utterances. Current formulations of the LCS system (Jackendoff 1983) include processing mechanisms that capture semantic relations between expressions, such as synonymy, common-sense entailment, etc; the mechanisms include preference rules and default inference.

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