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Lexical Semantic Constraints

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Semantics and the Lexicon

Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ((SLAP,volume 49))

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In linguistics and natural language processing, language has been described and theorized about in terms of constraints. Given that lexical semantics is the study of the meaning (’semantics’) of words (‘lexical’), the constraints that are the most natural focus for lexical semantics research are constraints on the meanings of words, i.e., what one might call lexical semantic constraints. A number of lexical semantic constraints is investigated; selectional restrictions (also known as preferences), assertions, relevance, salience, and restrictions on the internal semantic structure of nouns and verbs. The challenge for lexical semantics is to understand how such constraints are organized and used.

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Fass, D. (1993). Lexical Semantic Constraints. In: Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Semantics and the Lexicon. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1972-6_13

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