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We consider lexical operations and their representation in a unification based lexicon and the role of lexical semantic information. We describe a unified treatment of the linguistic aspects of sense extension and derivational morphological processes which delimit the range of possible coercions between lexemes and give a preliminary account of how default interpretations may arise.
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Copestake, A., Briscoe, T. (1992). Lexical operations in a unification-based framework. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bergler, S. (eds) Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation. SIGLEX 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55801-2_30
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