Lexical and Nonlexical Contributions to Sentence Meaning

本研究将探讨人体骨骼肌的微观结构 概念，重点是句子表达的概念是如何 由词汇意义加上结构原则构成。 Jackendoff概念语义学框架的建立 Pustejovsky对事件结构和生成词典的研究， 该项目将调查一些相互关联的问题 关于词义是如何在头脑中内部构建的 语言使用者：在描述的事件中字符的连接 由句子中的句法位置;内部 名词意义的组织，包括形式的属性， 名词所描述的对象的功能和起源;因子分解 将对象和事件概念划分为独立的维度; 权利和义务的语义学。 此外，该项目将 调查“胁迫原则”，其影响是增加 句子中的某些意义元素， 用语言表达的。 这些原则在很大程度上涉及到 简化了词语中明显的歧义， 在上下文中理解语言。

This study will investigate the microstructure of human concepts, with a focus on how concepts expressed by sentences are constructed from lexical meanings plus structural principles. Building of Jackendoff's framework of Conceptual Semantics plus Pustejovsky's work on event structure and the generative lexicon, the project will investigate a number of interrelated problems concerning how word meanings are internally structured in the minds of language users: the linking of characters in an event described by a sentence syntactic positions in the sentence; the internal organization of noun meanings, including properties of form, function, and origin of objects described by nouns; the factoring of object and event concepts into independent dimensions; and the semantics of rights and obligation. In addition, the project will investigate "principles of coercion," whose effects are to add to sentences certain elements of meaning that are not overtly expressed in words. Such principles are heavily involved in simplifying apparent ambiguities in words, as well as in understanding language in context.//