Tony Davis (tdavis@csli.stanford.edu)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:01:41 -0800 (PST)
My Stanford Ph.D. dissertation, Lexical Semantics and Linking in the Hierarchical Lexicon, completed last year, is available on my homepage: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/users/tdavis/ Both compressed postscript and RTF versions are available (thanks to Adma Przepiorkowski for preparing the ps files). This dissertation sets out a model of the interface between semantic roles and syntactic arguments within HPSG. The model treats the patterns we observe in the mapping between semantic roles and syntactic arguments as the result of interacting linking constraints on lexical entries. It is semantically grounded in the sense that the semantic roles of a predicator are classified by the semantic entailments that hold of the participants in the event or state the predicator denotes. I discuss a range of verbs, including passive verbs, which appear on the surface to violate linking constraints, and to argument structure alternations. Tony Davis
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