The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar
<|reference_start|>The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar: We argue that the resource sharing that is commonly manifest in semantic accounts of coordination is instead appropriately handled in terms of structure-sharing in LFG f-structures. We provide an extension to the previous account of LFG semantics (Dalrymple et al., 1993b) according to which dependencies between f-structures are viewed as resources; as a result a one-to-one correspondence between uses of f-structures and meanings is maintained. The resulting system is sufficiently restricted in cases where other approaches overgenerate; the very property of resource-sensitivity for which resource sharing appears to be problematic actually provides explanatory advantages over systems that more freely replicate resources during derivation.<|reference_end|>
@article{kehler1995the,
    title={The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar},
    author={Andrew Kehler (Harvard University), Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), John
  Lamping (Xerox PARC), Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC)},
    journal={Proceedings of EACL-95},
    year={1995},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9502015},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}