Collocations and the Representation of Polarity
Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter
Paper presented at
The Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language in Pécs,
Hungary, at the end of August 2002.
Published in:
Gábor Alberti and Kata Balogh and Paul Dekker (Eds.):
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language,
pp. 129-138
Abstract
We discuss the distribution of the German verb fackeln
(hesitate; dither, in the sense of acting nervously or
indecisively). It is a Negative Polarity Item which must also fall in
the scope of a durational modifier. We argue that a collocation
module is needed to account for the obligatory presence of the
durational modifier. The collocational requirement has to be expressed
with reference to the logical form of the modifier. We show that the
negation sensitivity can be accounted for by the same collocational
mechanism, making reference to the logical form of the licensing
context rather than to its entailment properties.
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Bibtex entry:
@inproceedings{Sailer:Richter:lola02,
author = {Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter},
title = {Collocations and the Representation of Polarity},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language},
editor = {G\'abor Alberti and Kata Balogh and Paul Dekker},
pages = {129--138},
address = {P\'ecs},
year = {2002}
}
Frank Richter