Open AccessLicense to COLL: How to bind bound words and readings to their contexts
Author(s) -
Jan-Philipp Soehn
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2004.15
Subject(s) - lexicon , computer science , feature (linguistics) , natural language processing , context (archaeology) , artificial intelligence , lexical item , word (group theory) , phrase , identifier , license , linguistics , programming language , paleontology , philosophy , biology , operating system
In this contribution we propose a new module for handling idioms anddistributional idiosyncrasies. Based on the concept by Richter/Sailer (1999)the new feature COLL (context of lexical licensing) plays the central role inour approach. We provide a way to handle decomposable and nondecomposableidioms and idioms containing bound words. Our module guarantees theco-occurrence of all idiom parts and of bound word and licensing context,respectively. A prerequisite for our analysis is a means to select forparticular elements in the lexicon. We introduce another feature, LISTEME,which gives each lexical item its unique identifier andmakes it possible toselect for a particular lexical word or phrase. Finally, we compare ourproposal with alternative approaches and give some ideas regarding furtherapplications beyond idiomaticity.