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  1. Intra‐sentential context effects on the interpretation of logical metonymy⋆.Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller & Christoph Scheepers - 2003 - Cognitive Science 27 (4):649-668.
    Verbs such as enjoy in the student enjoyed the book exhibit logical metonymy: enjoy is interpreted as enjoy reading. Theoreticalwork [Computational Linguistics 17 (4) (1991) 409; The Generative Lexicon, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995] predicts that this interpretation can be influenced by intra‐sentential context, e.g., by the subject of enjoy. In this article, we test this prediction using a completion experiment and find that the interpretation of a metonymic verb is influenced by the semantic role of its subject. We present (...)
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  • The Generative Lexicon.James Pustejovsky - 1995 - MIT Press.
    The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning" - that is, how ...
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  • Equatives and Deferred Reference.Gregory Ward - 2008 - In Jeanette K. Gundel & Nancy Ann Hedberg (eds.), Reference: interdisciplinary perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 73--94.
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  • Reading time evidence for enriched composition.Brian McElree, Matthew J. Traxler, Martin J. Pickering, Rachel E. Seely & Ray Jackendoff - 2001 - Cognition 78 (1):B17-B25.
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  • The non-uniqueness of semantic solutions: Polysemy. [REVIEW]Geoffrey Nunberg - 1979 - Linguistics and Philosophy 3 (2):143 - 184.
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