Annotating Croatian Semantic Type Coercions in CROATPAS

Costanza Marini, Elisabetta Jezek


Abstract
This short research paper presents the results of a corpus-based metonymy annotation exercise on a sample of 101 Croatian verb entries – corresponding to 457 patters and over 20,000 corpus lines – taken from CROATPAS (Marini & Ježek, 2019), a digital repository of verb argument structures manually annotated with Semantic Type labels on their argument slots following a methodology inspired by Corpus Pattern Analysis (Hanks, 2004 & 2013; Hanks & Pustejovsky, 2005). CROATPAS will be made available online in 2020. Semantic Type labelling is not only well-suited to annotate verbal polysemy, but also metonymic shifts in verb argument combinations, which in Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky, 1995 & 1998; Pustejovsky & Ježek, 2008) are called Semantic Type coercions. From a sub lexical point of view, Semantic Type coercions can be considered as exploitations of one of the qualia roles of those Semantic Types which do not satisfy a verb’s selectional requirements, but do not trigger a different verb sense. Overall, we were able to identify 62 different Semantic Type coercions linked to 1,052 metonymic corpus lines. In the future, we plan to compare our results with those from an equivalent study on Italian verbs (Romani, 2020) for a crosslinguistic analysis of metonymic shifts.
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2020.isa-1.6
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Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation
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May
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2020
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Marseille
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Harry Bunt
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ISA
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European Language Resources Association
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49–58
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English
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Costanza Marini and Elisabetta Jezek. 2020. Annotating Croatian Semantic Type Coercions in CROATPAS. In Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, pages 49–58, Marseille. European Language Resources Association.
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