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. Semantics
h
h:every(x, h, h)
h:some(y, h, h)
h:dog(x)
h:cat(y)
h:chase(e, x, y)
Figure .: some(y,cat(y),every(x,dog(x),chase(x,y)))
(qeq oder = q ). A qeq constraint relates an argument handle and a label: h = q l means
that the handle is filled by the label directly or one or more quantifiers are inserted
between h and l. Taking this into account, we can now return to our original example.
e correct MRS representation of (a) is given in ().
()
⟨ h, { h:every(x, h, h), h:dog(x), h:chase(e, x, y),
h:some(y, h, h), h:cat(y) }, { h = q h, h = q h } ⟩
e handle constraints are associated with the lexical entries for the respective quantifiers.
Figure . shows the analysis. For compositional cases as in Figure ., the
value of a sign is simply the concatenation of the values of the daughters. Similarly
the value is a concatenation of the values of the daughters.
.. e Analysis of Non-Compositional Constructions
Copestake, Flickinger, Pollard & Sag (b) extended the basic analysis that concatenates
and to cases in which the meaning of an expression is more than the
meaning that is contributed by the daughters in a certain structure. ey use the feature
for the representation of constructional content. While usually the semantic
functor (the head in head argument combinations and the adjunct in head adjunct structures)
determines the main semantic contribution of a phrase, the feature can
be used to specify a new main semantic contribution. In addition relations and scope
constraints may be introduced via . e feature geometry for is given in
():
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