[Lexicog] lexical scripts

[Wayne Leman]

There are a variety of semantic relationships which can be noted in a 
lexical database, e.g. synonymy, antonymy, hyponomy, etc.

Today in our Cheyenne lexical field work we explored the semantic domain of 
teaching someone to drive a car. After our work I realized that the terms 
used are not simply part of a semantic domain, let's say, of automobile, but 
there can also be some temporal or logical sequencing ("turn it on" comes 
before "put it in gear", etc.), what I might call a lexical script. There 
are other domains in which there are typical scripts such as recipes and 
directions for making a canoe, etc.

How might we notate the temporal or logical steps of such lexical scripts in 
a lexical database? How can we retrieve and display lexical scripts from 
databases?

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
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