We chose the adjectives as follows : we first compiled a list of all the polysemous adjectives mentioned in the lexical semantics literature ( Vendler , 1968 ; Pustejovsky , 1995 ) .
the generative lexicon
James Pustejovsky
We chose nine adjectives according to a set of minimal criteria and paired each adjective with 10 nouns randomly selected from the BNC . We chose the adjectives as follows : we first compiled a list of all the polysemous adjectives mentioned in the lexical semantics literature ( Vendler , 1968 ; Pustejovsky , 1995 ) . From these we randomly sampled nine adjectives ( difficult , easy , fast , good , hard , right , safe , slow , wrong ) .
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