@InProceedings{coling02, author = {Christian Korthals and Ralph Debusmann}, title = {Linking syntactic and semantic arguments in a dependency-based formalism}, booktitle = {Proceedings of he COLING 2002 Conference}, year = 2002, address = {Taipei/TW} authorURLs = {http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~cnkortha/ and http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~rade/}, abstract = {We propose a formal characterization of variation in the syntactic realization of semantic arguments, using hierarchies of syntactic relations and thematic roles, and a mechanism of lexical inheritance to obtain valency frames from individual linking types. We embed the formalization in the new lexicalized, dependency-based grammar formalism of Topological Dependency Grammar (TDG) (Duchier/Debusmann 2001). We account for arguments that can be alternatively realized as a NP or a PP, and model thematic role alternations. We also treat auxiliary constructions, where the correspondance between syntactic and semantic argumenthood is indirect.}, keywords = {dependency grammar, syntax-semantics interface, linking}, }