Lexical Pragmatics - Journal of Semantics

154 Lexical Pragmatics(45) (a) 3e[SCHOOL(e) A REALIZE(e,x) A BUHDING(x) AHAS_A_FLAT_ROOF(x)j(b) 3e[GOV(e) A REALIZE(e,x) A BUHDING(x) AHAS_A_FLAT_ROOF(x)]In both cases, the first two conjuncts result from the lexical inputs of theinstitute-type nominals, and the remaining ones correspondingly to thepredicate complex. The expression BUILDING(x) is due to the assumed sortrestriction provided by the predicate complex, and it is singled out as animportant representational element in the present analysis.The diagram (46) shows the part of the abductive inference graph that isrelevant for abducing the building-interpretation (43b) starting with (43a)(in its pre-analysed form (45a)). Note that there is no real abduction in thisvery crude and simplifying analysis. The graph shows a 'conceptualdecomposition' of the subject term and a factoring operation that unifiesthe occurrence of BUILD(x) resulting from this decomposition with itsoccurrence resulting from the predicate complex. This effects a saving inassumption costs (by an amount of a).(46) SCH00L(e) $1 AREALIZE(e,x)$O A BUILD(x) $0 A . . . s "SCHOOL(e)