@inproceedings{utt13:_curious_case_meton_verbs,
  abstract = {Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g., The writer began the novel), triggering a covert event interpretation (e.g., reading, writing). Experimental investigations of logical metonymy must assume a binary distinction between metonymic (i.e. event- selecting) verbs and non-metonymic verbs to establish a control condition. However, this binary distinction (whether a verb is metonymic or not) is mostly made on intuitive grounds, which introduces a potential confounding factor. We describe a corpus-based approach which characterizes verbs in terms of their behavior at the syntax-semantics interface. The model assesses the extent to which transitive verbs prefer event-denoting objects over entity-denoting objects. We then test this “eventhood” measure on psycholinguistic datasets, showing that it can distinguish not only metonymic from non-metonymic verbs, but that it can also capture more fine-grained distinctions among different classes of metonymic verbs, putting such distinctions into a new graded perspective.},
  added-at = {2017-04-03T19:29:52.000+0200},
  address = {Potsdam, Germany},
  author = {Utt, Jason and Lenci, Alessandro and Pado, Sebastian and Zarcone, Alessandra},
  biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2ae51adae79eef83b2352c81fd05abe05/sp},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IWCS workshop ''Towards A Formal Distributional Semantics''},
  interhash = {af7a65d36f2c32973d4dc175773b548f},
  intrahash = {ae51adae79eef83b2352c81fd05abe05},
  keywords = {myown workshop},
  timestamp = {2017-04-03T17:30:49.000+0200},
  title = {The Curious Case of
    Metonymic Verbs: A Distributional Characterization},
  url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W13/W13-0604.pdf},
  year = 2013
}