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3 - A Conceptually Oriented Approach to Semantic Composition in RRG

from Part Two - Topics in RRG: Simple Sentences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

By
Ricardo Mairal Usón  and
Pamela Faber
Edited by
Delia Bentley ,
Ricardo Mairal Usón ,
Wataru Nakamura  and
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Delia Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Ricardo Mairal Usón
Affiliation:
Universidad National de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
Wataru Nakamura
Affiliation:
Tohoku University, Japan
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Affiliation:
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Summary

One of the major concerns of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) has always been the development of a theory of semantic composition for both state and activity predicates. Over the last thirty years, there have been a variety of proposals aimed at the formulation of a semantic representation system that accounts for the interface between syntax and semantics. Proposals to enrich the RRG semantic representation system involve notations such as the use of internal variables, lexical functions and qualia structure, among others, in an effort to link syntax to conceptual or semantic meaning. Nevertheless, another solution could lie in a more ontologically oriented model of semantic representation that provides a conceptual framework for the formalization of meaning construction. This chapter outlines and describes a semantic representation system in the form of conceptual logical structures (CLSs), based on the FunGramKB ontology.

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semantic representationconceptual logical structuresFunGramKB ontology
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The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar , pp. 218 - 241
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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