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Events and Relative Clauses

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Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 2022)

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This work is the continuation of the development of polynomial event semantics (a dialect of Neo-Davidsonian event semantics), using the FraCaS textual entailment corpus as a whetstone. This time we grapple with various, often complicated, relative clauses.

Relative clauses have hardly been analyzed before in event semantics. Although simple cases are straightforward, challenges arise when a clause contains quantification, coordination or negation. We deal with such complications in the present paper, focusing on entailments.

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Notes

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    from Clifford Irving, The Valley (1961) – sentence 170 of susanne_N02 included in [2].

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    The annotated form is https://oncoj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tspc.sh?tree=170_susanne_N02@21 &mode=clip.

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Acknowledgments

We are very grateful to the reviewers and the participants of LENLS19 for their insightful comments and questions. We particularly appreciate the interesting examples to analyze (Sect. 4) pointed out by a reviewer. This work was partially supported by a JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17K00091.

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  1. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Oleg Kiselyov & Haruki Watanabe

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  2. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Koji Mineshima

  3. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

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Kiselyov, O., Watanabe, H. (2023). Events and Relative Clauses. In: Bekki, D., Mineshima, K., McCready, E. (eds) Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics. LENLS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14213. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43977-3_2

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