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  <Title>Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds</Title>
  <Section position="4" start_page="78" end_page="79" type="intro">
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2 The Generative Lexicon
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    <Paragraph position="0"> For the purposes of this paper, we will simplify the representational structure of a GL lexical entry to include four levels of representation: type structure, argument structure, event structure (for verbs), and qualia structure. The latter in turn expresses four aspects of the meaning of the lexical item: FORMAL, CONSTITUTIVE, TELIC, and AGENTIVE. These lexical entries are encoded using typed feature structures. The basic layout of the lexical entries we employ is given in (2).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> (2)</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> ffi parts of QUALIA ffi TELIC = purl~ose of c~ AGENTIVE = hOW Ol is brought about Given this model of lexical representation a noun such as knife has the entry in (3). The predicates in the qualia specify the definitional properties of knife. Participants in these predicates other than the knife itself are listed as default arguments (D-AR~I, D-ARC2, and D-ARG3) in</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Representations such as that in (3) are intended to be the values of a CONTENT attribute which specifies the semantic content of a lexical item. All of the representations for single words and complex nominals throughout the rest of the paper consist only of the value of CONTENT.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> The phrase structure schemata presented contain full lexical entries which have a CONTENT attribute as well as an ORTH and a DTRS attribute.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="7"> In the following three sections, we will show how the free classes of compounds considered so far can be treated as instances of telic, agentive, and constitutive qualia modification respectively.</Paragraph>
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