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On the creative use of language
1994
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation - INLG '94
unpublished
We introduce the problem of referential creativity: how it is that a person can give a word or phrase a new denotation even though she has never heard or used in that way before. Using real examples that we have collected, we focus on the case of semantic type coercion, where a phrase of a given type is used in a textual context that requires a completely different type yet the intended message is perfectly well understood. We frame our account as the problem of what form the linguistic
doi:10.3115/1641417.1641427
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