SynSem_PolymorphicVariadicPredicates

Problem Statement

Reading List

• Fillmore 1986 Pragmatically controlled zero anaphora

• Fillmore2007 Valency Issues in FrameNet

• Johnson and Fillmore 2000 The FrameNet tagset for frame-semantic and syntactic coding of predicate-argument structure

• Grimshaw

• Something from formal literature on why predicates shouldn't be polymorphic or variadic

Resources to Review

• ERG Lexicon

• Prague valency lexicon

• VerbNet

• FrameNet

• Levin, B. (1993) English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

Clear Cases

• Argument still there semantically even when dropped: eat

• Argument gone semantically if not satisfied syntactically: kick

• Accepts clausal complement only: contend

Other Wiki Pages

• FeforDroppedArguments

• TheAbbey/Chrysalis2014Arity

• TheAbbey/Chrysalis2014OpenEndedPredicates

• SaarlandSententialArgument

• TheAbbey/Chrysalis2014Nominalization