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Linglib.Semantics.Verb.Root.Signature

Root Kind Signatures #

The four-feature vocabulary of [BKG20]'s root typology (ch. 5): a root's kind signature records which kinds of lexical entailment it carries — state, manner, result, cause — as a Finset LexKind, so signatures inherit the Boolean lattice of finite sets ( is "carries at most these kinds").

LexKind carries the book's collocational order (state < result < cause, with manner isolated): "+result entails being +state, since become′ entails something that has come about… +cause entails being +result, since cause′ entails that there is a caused event. These are not root-specific stipulations." Well-formedness of a signature is downward-closedness in this order, and close — the induced lower closure, packaged as a mathlib ClosureOperator — repairs any signature to a well-formed one.

This file is Root-free: consumers that map other objects to signatures (e.g. Levin classes) can import it without the root substrate.

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Lexical entailment kinds #

inductive Verb.LexKind :

The four kinds of lexical entailment of [BKG20]'s root typology.

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    instance Verb.instDecidableEqLexKind :
    DecidableEq LexKind
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    def Verb.instReprLexKind.repr :
    LexKindStd.Format
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      instance Verb.LexKind.instPartialOrder :
      PartialOrder LexKind

      The collocational order of [BKG20]: state < result < cause (a cause presupposes a result, a result presupposes a state), with manner incomparable to the chain.

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      Kind signatures #

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      A root kind signature: the set of entailment kinds carried. (= ) and the lattice operations come from Finset.

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        The collocational closure: a signature carrying cause is completed with result and state; one carrying result is completed with state. This is the lower closure under the LexKind order (mem_close_iff).

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          theorem Verb.Root.Kinds.mem_close_iff (s : Kinds) (k : LexKind) :
          k s.close js, k j

          close is the lower closure under the collocational order: k is in the closure iff some kind in s dominates it.

          def Verb.Root.Kinds.closeOp :
          ClosureOperator Kinds

          The collocational closure as a mathlib ClosureOperator.

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            A signature is well-formed iff it already satisfies the collocational constraints (it is a fixed point of close).

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              theorem Verb.Root.Kinds.wellFormed_iff_isLowerSet (s : Kinds) :
              s.WellFormed IsLowerSet s

              Well-formedness is downward-closedness in the LexKind order.

              Closure output is always well-formed — the collocational constraints hold of closed signatures by construction.

              Canonical signatures #

              The attested rows of the root typology of [BKG20] ch. 5 (their example display (12), §5.4).

              +S −M −R −C: property concept roots (√FLAT, √DRY). Deadjectival COS verbs — the root names the result state. Complement position.

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                +S −M +R −C: internally caused result roots (√BLOSSOM, √RUST). Root entails both a state and a change to that state, but not external causation. Complement position.

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                  +S −M +R +C: externally caused result roots (√CRACK, √BREAK). Root entails a state, change, AND causation. If roots subdivide by entailed causation, this may underlie Levin & Rappaport Hovav's (1995) externally vs internally caused change-of-state distinction ([BKG20], hedged as a possibility). Complement position.

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                    −S +M −R −C: pure manner roots (√JOG, √RUN, √SWIM). Root specifies action manner without entailing any state. Adjoined position.

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                      +S +M +R −C: manner + result without cause. Well-formed per the constraints; [BKG20] leave its attestation an open question ("whether a change and a manner can exist together in a single meaning without causation"), with candidate witnesses slide and motion-in-sound-emission buzz.

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                        +S +M +R +C: fully specified roots (√HAND adjoined, √DROWN and the other manner-of-killing roots in complement position; [BKG20] chs. 3–4). These are the attested MRC violators. The adjoined/complement contrast is carried by Root.Position, not by the signature.

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                          −S −M −R −C: minimal roots — no structural entailments. Conservative default for classes not yet studied under B&KG's framework. Not a row in B&KG's typology (which only lists roots with at least one positive feature).

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                            The two theses, at signature level #

                            The ontological kinds — all the Bifurcation Thesis allows a root to carry.

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                              A signature violates the Bifurcation Thesis ([Emb09]; the assumption of [Ara05]) iff it carries templatic (eventive) content — it is not bounded by ontological.

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                                Violation is carrying a result or cause kind.

                                Bifurcation violation is monotone: adding entailments cannot repair a violation. (Equivalently, the thesis carves out a lower set of the signature lattice.)

                                A signature has both manner and result — the configuration Manner/Result Complementarity ([RHL10]) claims no root realizes.

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                                  MRC violation is monotone in the signature order.

                                  Both theses are invariant under collocational closure: close only adds state/result kinds forced by cause, never manner, and a closed signature violates Bifurcation iff its base does.