A Generative Montagovian Lexicon for Polysemous Deverbal Nouns

Livy-Maria Real-Coelho (1, 2) , Christian Retoré (2, 3)

1 LETRAS - Departamento de Lingüística, Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas
2 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
3 IRIT - Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse

We propose a computational formalization of some forms of polysemy. Here we focus on the resultative/processual polysemy of deverbal nouns like assinatura ("signing/signature") or abertura ("opening/aperture") in Por- tuguese -- we also study similar constructs in French, Italian, and English. We follow the Montagovian Generative Lexicon (MGL) introduced in Bassac, Mery & Retor ́e (2010) based on second-order Girard's F system with several entity types -- including at least one type t for propositions and several entity types, as v (event), s (state) φ (physical object). Our for- malization produces the readings involving one aspect of the polysemous noun, and it also handles properly co-predication phenomena.

Mots clés: computational linguistics; natural language understanding; compositional semantics; lexical semantics; type theory; lambda-calculus

Domaines: Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Logique en informatique [cs.LO]

Livy-Maria Real-Coelho, Christian Retoré. A Generative Montagovian Lexicon for Polysemous Deverbal Nouns. 4th world congress on Universal Logic -- workshop on Logic and linguistics, Apr 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.uni-log.org/. ⟨hal-00760380⟩