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Quantifiers in Frame Semantics

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Formal Grammar (FG 2014)

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We present a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar with lexical meaning specifications in Frame Semantics for the analysis of complex situations. Frame Semantics is extended by a notion of quantifier frames, which provide the basis for a translation function from frames to underspecified type-logical representations. An analysis of repetitive and restitutive readings of achievements with the adverb again demonstrates the interaction of all components of the new semantic architecture.

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  1. Abteilung für Computerlinguistik, Institut für Sprache und Information, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Laura Kallmeyer

  2. Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Abteilung Linguistik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M., Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Frank Richter

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  1. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes,Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Girona Salgado,1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Glyn Morrill

  2. Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, NL 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Reinhard Muskens

  3. Department of Linguistics and Information Science, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Rainer Osswald

  4. Institute for English and American Studies, Department of Linguistic, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323, Frankfurt, Germany

    Frank Richter

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Kallmeyer, L., Richter, F. (2014). Quantifiers in Frame Semantics. In: Morrill, G., Muskens, R., Osswald, R., Richter, F. (eds) Formal Grammar. FG 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8612. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44121-3_5

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