semantic roles for LFG grammar engineering

[Stefan Müller]

Dear Adam,

I remember a workshop "Lexical semantics and linking in constraint-based
theories" in Utrecht in 1999 where Dan Flickinger gave a talk arguing
for using ARG1, ARG2, ARG3.

This saves you all the trouble with the traditional roles and basically
results in a system that is similar to what Dowty suggested.

Otherwise you would end up calling the subject of "see" an experiencer
and wondering why passives of "see" are possible even though passive is
usually described as the suppression of the agent.

The DELPH-IN project uses ARG1-ARGn and CoreGram too.

Best wishes

        Stefan

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