Representing constructional metaphors

Pavlina Kalm, Michael Regan, Sook-kyung Lee, Chris Peverada, William Croft


Abstract
This paper introduces a representation and annotation scheme for argument structure constructions that are used metaphorically with verbs in different semantic domains. We aim to contribute to the study of constructional metaphors which has received little attention in theoretical and computational linguistics. The proposed representation consists of a systematic mapping between the constructional and verbal event structures in two domains. It reveals the semantic motivations that lead to constructions being metaphorically extended. We demonstrate this representation on argument structure constructions with Transfer of Possession verbs and test the viability of this scheme with an annotation exercise.
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2020.dmr-1.9
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Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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December
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2020
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Barcelona Spain (online)
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Nianwen Xue, Johan Bos, William Croft, Jan Hajič, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephan Oepen, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovsky
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DMR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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90–100
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Pavlina Kalm, Michael Regan, Sook-kyung Lee, Chris Peverada, and William Croft. 2020. Representing constructional metaphors. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 90–100, Barcelona Spain (online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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