A. Zarcone and A. Lenci and S. Pado. Generalized Event Knowledge in Logical Metonymy Resolution. Proceedings of CogSci 2012. Sapporo, Japan.
It has been widely acknowledged that the interpretation of logical metonymies involves the interpretation of covert events (begin the book -> reading / writing). Whether this implicit content is part of our lexicon or rather it comes from our world knowledge, it is currently subject of debate. We present results from a probe recognition experiment, providing novel evidence in support of early metonymy processing, consistent with the hypothesis that covert events are retrieved from knowledge of typical events.
@InProceedings{zarcone12:inferring,
author = {Alessandra Zarcone and Alessandro Lenci and Sebastian Pad\'o},
title = {Inferring covert events in logical metonymies:
A probe recognition experiment},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society},
year = 2012,
address = {Sapporo, Japan}}