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  <Title>Fine-Grained Lexical Semantic Representations and Compositionally-Derived Events in Mandarin Chinese</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The key claim of this paper is that results from the theoretical study of verbal argument structure are relevant to computational lexical semantic representations for language applications. Although the simplest possible argument representation treats verbs as predicates over their arguments, I have demonstrated that this approach is woefully inadequate for handling a language such as Mandarin Chinese. I have presented evidence that verb meaning in Mandarin is compositionally built up from underlying state and activity primitives--this organization of the verbal system must be mirrored by any lexical semantic representation aspiring to capture generalizations about argument realization patterns. This paper takes an important step in laying out some of the constraints for such a representation.</Paragraph>
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