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  <Title>Inheriting Verb Alternations</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The paper shows how the verbal lexicon can be formalised in a way that captures and exploits generalisations about the alternation behaviour of verb classes. An alternation is a pattern in which a number of words share the same relationship between * a pair of senses. The alternations captured are ones where the different senses specify different relationships between syntactic complements and semantic arguments, as between bake in &amp;quot;John is baking the cake&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The cake is baking&amp;quot;. The formal language used is DATR. The lexical entries it builds are as specified in HPSG. The complex alternation behaviour shared between families of verbs is elegantly represented in a way that makes generalisations explicit, avoids redundancy, and offers practical benefits to computational lexicographers.</Paragraph>
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