Modelling Italian construction flexibility with distributional semantics: are constructions enough?

Lucia Busso, Ludovica Pannitto, Alessandro Lenci

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Abstract

The present study combines
psycholinguistic evidence on Italian valency coercion and a distributional analysis. The paper suggests that distributional
properties can provide useful insights on
how general abstract constructions influence the resolution of coercion effects.
However, complete understanding of the
processing and recognition of coercion requires to take into consideration the complex intertwining of lexical verb and abstract constructions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCliC-It 2018 proceedings
EditorsElena Cabrio, Alessandro Mazzei, Fabio Tamburini
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Number of pages7
Volume2253
Publication statusPublished - 22 Nov 2018
EventConferenza Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale 2018 - Cavallerizza Reale, Torino, Italy
Duration: 10 Dec 201812 Dec 2018
Conference number: 5

Conference

ConferenceConferenza Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale 2018
Abbreviated titleClic-It
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTorino
Period10/12/1812/12/18

Bibliographical note

© 2018 The Authors

Keywords

  • construction grammar
  • psycholinguistic model
  • distributional semantics
  • Italian
  • usage-based

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