[...] "Type coercion". A semantic operation that converts an argument to the type which is expected by a function, where it would otherwise result in a type error.
- Pustejovsky & Boguraev (2004), Pag. 348

A set of generative devices connects the four levels, providing for the compositional interpretation of words in context. The most important of these devices is a semantic transformation called "type coercion" - analogous to coercion in programming languages - which captures the semantic relatedness between syntactically distinct expressions.
- Pustejovsky & Boguraev (2004), Pag. 342-343