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  <Title>Fine-Grained Lexical Semantic Representations and Compositionally-Derived Events in Mandarin Chinese</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Current lexical semantic representations for natural language applications view verbs as simple predicates over their arguments. These structures are too coarse-grained to capture many important generalizations about verbal argument structure. In this paper, I specifically defend the following two claims: verbs have rich internal structure expressible in terms of finer-grained primitives of meaning, and at least for some languages, verbal meaning is compositionally derived from these primitive elements. I primarily present evidence from Mandarin Chinese, whose verbal system is very different from that of English. Many empirical facts about the typology of verbs in Mandarin cannot be captured by a &amp;quot;flat&amp;quot; lexical semantic representation. These theoretical results hold important practical consequences for natural language processing applications.</Paragraph>
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