TY  - CHAP
A1  - Anderson, Curt
A1  - Löbner, Sebastian
T1  - Roles and the compositional semantics of role-denoting relational adjectives
T2  - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 1 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 60
N2  - The semantics of adjectives related to nominals denoting societal roles, such as presidential (from president), have remained understudied. We examine the semantics of what we call role-denoting relational adjectives, providing a formal analysis using the notion of a frame, a unified representation for lexical knowledge, world knowledge, and context. The frames we propose are based on a constructivist philosophical understanding of social roles, leading us to posit a multi-tiered ontology of events and individuals. Using frames and our ontology, we provide a general semantics for role-denoting relational adjectives and roles
KW  - relational adjectives
KW  - events
KW  - modification
KW  - adjectives
KW  - frame semantics
KW  - natural language metaphysics
KW  - non-intersective adjectives
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55802
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558022
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
SP  - 91
EP  - 108
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
CY  - Berlin
ER  -