Remodelling complement coercion interpretation
- Frederick G Gietz (University of Toronto)
- Barend Beekhuizen (University of Toronto)
Abstract
Existing (experimental and computational) linguistic work uses participant paraphrases as a stand-in for event interpretation in complement coercion sentences (e.g. she finished the coffee > she finished drinking the coffee). We present crowdsourcing data and modelling that supports broadening this conception. In particular, our results suggest that sentences where many participants do not give a paraphrase, or where many different paraphrases are given, are informative about to how complement coercion is interpreted in naturalistic contexts.
Keywords: pragmatics, inference, complement coercion, modeling, open-ended interpretation
How to Cite:
Gietz, F. G. & Beekhuizen, B., (2022) “Remodelling complement coercion interpretation”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 5(1), 158-170. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/s256-en43
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