{"pk":33051,"title":"Predicating Nominal Compounds","subtitle":null,"abstract":"It is generally accepted that in the semantic interpretation of \ncompound nominals there is a set of possible relationships that \ncould apply between the nominal constituents. This, however, has not been reflected adequately in the literaUire, which \nfavours very deterministic processing or analyses performed on \na pragmatic level. This study extends the existing set of relationships described by Levi (1978), postulating a set of rules \nto predict a subset of these relationships for a particular compound using a unification-based formalism with typed featurestructures. The system shows that by operating on a purely \nsemantic level a small set of valid predicates for the meaning \nof the whole compound can be obtained.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wj1r8md","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Barnard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jones","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33051/galley/24113/download/"}]}