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An expectation-based account of logical metonymy interpretation

Logical metonymies (e.g. the student began the book) have often been treated as a case of type-clash (Pustejovsky 1995): an …

Alessandra Zarcone

When coercing means fitting: distributional modeling of psycholinguistic datasets

Alessandra Zarcone

Fitting, not clashing! A distributional semantic model of logical metonymy

Logical metonymy interpretation (e.g. begin the book → writing) has received wide attention in linguistics. Experimental results have …

Alessandra Zarcone, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt

The curious case of metonymic verbs: A distributional characterization

Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g., The writer began the novel), triggering a covert …

Jason Utt, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Alessandra Zarcone

Logical Metonymy from Type Clash to Thematic Fit

Logical metonymy (The author began the book) has often been explained in terms of a type-clash between an eventsubcategorizing …

Alessandra Zarcone, Jason Utt, Alessandro Lenci

Inferring Covert Events in Logical Metonymies: a Probe Recognition Experiment

It has been widely acknowledged that the interpretation of logical metonymies involves the interpretation of covert events (begin the …

Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci

Modeling covert event retrieval in logical metonymy: probabilistic and distributional accounts

Logical metonymies (The student finished the beer) represent a challenge to compositionality since they involve semantic content not …

Alessandra Zarcone, Jason Utt, Sebastian Padó

Generalized Event Knowledge in Logical Metonymy Resolution

The interpretation of logical metonymies like begin the book has traditionally been explained by assuming the existence of complex …

Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó