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  <Title>A Generative Lexicon Perspective for Adjectival Modification</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have presented an analysis of adjectival modification within the GL perspective, with the illustration of the French adjective bon. We have proposed several extensions to the Telic role to be able to account for the representation of the different forms of sense variations. In particular, we have shown how types can be added, and how predicates from the telic participate to the construction of the semantic representation of the compound noun + adjective.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Coercions and the treatment of metaphors and metonymies are generally assumed to be general principles, however, they are in fact more specialized than they seem at first glance (e.g. une bonne toque/ plume = a good cook/ writer is quite specific, or very constrained). It is then necessary to introduce narrow selectional restrictions on their use. Also, the similarities, quite important, outlined between the different cases presented here and observed for other families of adjectives suggest that there is a common typology for adjectival modification. What then would be a general formalism ? How much are these rules stlbject to linguistic variation ? Acknowledgements I thank James Pustejovsky, Federica Busa and Franqoise Gayral for discussions which helped improving this work.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> I don't thank my university administration, in particular the accounting dept., who made every possible effort to make this research more difficult.</Paragraph>
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