Compound Comprehension in Isolation and in Context
The contribution of conceptual and discourse knowledge to the comprehension of German novel noun-noun compounds
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Compound Comprehension in Isolation and in Context
The contribution of conceptual and discourse knowledge to the comprehension of German novel noun-noun compounds
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Ralf Meyer
Compound Comprehension in Isolation and in Context
The contribution of conceptual and discourse knowledge to the comprehension of German novel noun-noun compounds
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01/1993
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De Gruyter
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Content
- Intro
- Vorwort
- 0 Introductory Remarks
- 0.1 Types of Noun-Noun Compounds
- 0.2 Overview of the Work
- 1 Some Requirements for a Semantic Theory of Novel Noun-Noun Compounds
- 1.1 Dynamics of Compound Meaning
- 1.2 Knowledge Dependence of Compound Meaning
- 1.3 Discourse Dependence of Compound Meaning
- 1.4 Underdeterminacy of Compound Meaning
- 1.5 The Choice of the Representational Language
- 1.6 Discussion and Conclusion
- 2 Previous Work on Word Semantics and Compounding
- 2.1 Theories of Word Meaning
- 2.1.1 Default Information as a Basis for Dynamics of Word Meaning
- 2.1.2 Lexical Stereotypes as a Basis for Dynamics of Word Meaning
- 2.1.3 The Two-Level-Approach for Semantics
- 2.2 Conceptual Categories for Compounds
- 2.3 The Interpretation of Nominal Compounds in Montague-Grammar
- 2.4 Other Semantic Approaches
- 2.5 Novel Noun-Noun Compounds as Anaphorical Elements: Discourse Influence on Compound Interpretation
- 2.6 Psycholinguistic Models on Concept Combination as a Basis for Compound Interpretation
- 2.7 The Interpretation of Compounds in Artificial Intelligence
- 2.8 Discussion and Conclusion
- 3 Categorization of the Compounding Mechanism into a General Theory of Word Formation
- 3.1 Word Formation as a Part of the Syntax
- 3.2 Word Formation as an Autonomous Module
- 3.3 Word Formation as a Property of the Conceptual System
- 3.4 Discussion and Conclusion
- 3.4.1 Conclusion One: The Structure of Lexical Knowledge
- 3.4.2 Conclusion Two: On the Morphology of Noun-Noun Compounds
- 4 A Semantic Model for the Integration of Conceptual and Discourse Knowledge
- 4.1 On Genericity of the Modifier
- 4.2 Discourse Representation Theory DRT
- 4.3 Syntax and Semantics of DRLC
- 4.4 Knowledge Representation in DRSs
- 4.4.1 Properties of Knowledge Representations
- 4.4.2 Knowledge Representation in KL-ONE Lookalikes
- 4.4.3 Translation of TBox-Expressions into DRLC
- 4.5 Lexical Meaning of Nouns: Approaching the Two-Level Semantics in DRT
- 4.6 Syntax and Semantics of DRLex
- 4.7 Lexical DRSs for Nouns and NN-Compounds
- 4.8 Conceptual Shifts of Single Nouns
- 4.9 Conclusion
- 5 Relational Ambiguity of Isolated Novel Noun-Noun Compounds
- 5.1 Relational Nouns and Sortal Nouns in NN-Compounds
- 5.2 Possible Sources for Relations in NN-Compounds
- 5.3 Relations from Lexical Representations
- 5.4 The Conceptual Basis
- 5.4.1 Prototypical Properties of Substances
- 5.4.2 Spatial Functions of Three-Dimensional Objects
- 5.4.2.1 A Short Digression into Semantics of Local Prepositions
- 5.4.2.2 Location Relations in Novel NN-Compounds
- 5.4.3 The Made-Of, Part-Of and Has-Part Relations
- 5.4.4 Object-Specific Relations
- 5.4.5 Conjunctive Compounds
- 5.4.6 Summary and Conclusion
- 5.5 A Network of Compounding Rules
- 5.6 Conceptual Shifts of Novel NN-Compounds
- 5.7 Summary and Conclusion
- 6 Utterance Meanings of Novel Noun-Noun Compounds in Discourse
- 6.1 Current Assumptions on Discourse Comprehension and Their Implications for Semantics of Novel NN-Compounds
- 6.1.1 Local Discourse Constraints
- 6.1.2 Global Discourse Constraints
- 6.2 Some Preceding Remarks
- 6.2.1 Extensions of DRLex
- 6.2.2 The Treatment of Definite NPs
- 6.2.3 The Principle for Novel NN-Compound Interpretation in Context
- 6.3 Conjunctive Compounds in Discourse
- 6.4 Script-Driven NN-Compound Interpretation
- 6.5 Giving of a Relation in Discourse
- 6.5.1 Anaphoric Compounds
- 6.5.2 Cataphoric Compounds
- 6.6 Compounds in Discourse without Anaphoric Links
- 6.7 Genericity of the Modifier Revisited
- 6.8 Conceptual Shifts of Novel NN-Compounds Revisited
- 6.9 Discussion and Conclusion
- 7 Summary and Outlook
- 7.1 The Model for Computing Utterance Meanings of Novel Noun-Noun Compounds
- 7.2 Open Problems
- References
