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Taking “Apple” and “Red” as examples, and basing on the new description of lexical meaning structure, we hold that the lexical meaning structure was composed of three elements: referent meaning, attribute meaning and feature-value meaning. In the lexical meaning structures of different word-classes, overt and covert conditions of these three elements are different. According to the conditions, we can divide the lexical meaning structure into two sections, that is, indication meaning and implication meaning. A lexical meaning structure is composed of many minimum lexical meaning structures, and in a lexical meaning structure, all minimum lexical meaning structures share one indication meaning, so this lexical meaning structure is treated as a spherical structure of lexical meaning, and this indication meaning is regarded as the centre of the sphere, and implication meaning of this word is treated as outside of the center of the sphere. The spherical structure of lexical meaning is the foundation of the generation of syntactic structure, and the syntactic structure is the extending and intersecting of the spherical structure of lexical meaning.
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Qiu, Q. (2013). The Generation of Syntactic Structure Based on the Spherical Structure of Lexical Meaning. In: Ji, D., Xiao, G. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36337-5_52
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