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  <Title>Lexical Rules is Italicized</Title>
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5.0 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have taken issue with the concept of lexical rule as a rule of grammar combining syntactic, morphological, and phonological references on the one hand, with reference to specific semantic classes on the other. We argue instead for a separation of the two, with the grammar specific rules firmly within the grammar, and information about semantic classes firmly in the encyclopedia of general world knowledge.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Lexical semantics is primarily a matter of pointing the lexical items toward the appropriate locations in the ontology/encyclopedia, without requiring any except the most basic formal semantic properties (mass/ count, number, gender, etc.) as directly referenced by rules of the grammar, properties which have semantic correlates, but which function independently in the grammar. While we have not addressed all claims made on behalf of lexical rules, we have provided an alternative explanation in several cases.</Paragraph>
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