Rising Frames

In this paper I will review arguments I have made before for using frame-like objects in a formal semantic account of Montague's puzzles about the rising of prices and temperatures.  I shall then look in a little detail at the view of semantic coordination that Staffan Larsson and I have been working on and suggest that the questions we should be asking are not "What is the meaning of rise?" but "Given certain resources how will an agent exploit her semantic resources for rise when exposed to a new utterance of the word?" and "How will this modify the agent's resources?".  I will suggest that such a view might give a simple explanation for Zipf's law concerning the relationship of meanings and frequency.

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