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Drawing on a growing database of systematic relationships between word-senses, the authors argue that a significant class of these represent Lexical Implication Rules, a set of formal rules within the domain of lexical semantics; these they distinguish from other types of semantic relation more closely dependent on metaphor and world-knowledge. Some formal properties of Lexical Implication Rules are proposed, as evidence of their linguistic, rather than real-world, nature.
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Ostler, N., Atkins, B.T.S. (1992). Predictable meaning shift: Some linguistic properties of Lexical Implication Rules. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bergler, S. (eds) Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation. SIGLEX 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55801-2_29
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