Lexicon Project Working Papers
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Lexicology
ISBN :
Lexical Specification and Insertion
Author : Peter Coopmans
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027299587
Book Description
The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the contributions focus on what the syntactic consequences are of choices that are made with respect to the lexical specifications of heads. The data in the volume are drawn from diverse languages, among which: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Mohawk, Norwegian, Polish, Russian.
Lexical Matters
Author : Anna Szabolcsi
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1992-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780937073667
Book Description
This volume contains new research on the lexicon and its relation to other aspects of linguistics. These essays put forth empirical arguments to claim that specific theoretical assumptions concerning the lexicon play a crucial role in resolving problems pertaining to other components of grammar. Topics include: syntactic/semantic interface in the areas of aspect, argument structure, and thematic roles; lexicon-based accounts of quirky case, anaphora, and control; the boundary between the lexicon and syntax in the domains of sentence comprehension and nominal compounding; and the possibility of extending the concept of blocking beyond the traditional lexicon. Ivan Sag is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Anna Szabolcsi is an associate professor of linglustics at UCLA.
Linking
Author : Janet H. Randall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402083076
Book Description
Linking is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, the author explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Through careful argumentation and original analysis, her study provides a framework for explaining the linking patterns of a range of verb classes, leading to a number of insights about lexical structure and a radical rethinking of many verb classes.
Knowledge and Language
Author : E. Reuland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401118426
Book Description
1. BACKGROUND This volume is one of three which emerged from the Conference on Knowledge and Language, held from May 21-May 25, 1989, at the occasion of the 37 5th anniversary of the University of Groningen. Studying the relation between knowledge and language, one may distinguish two different lines of inquiry, one focussing on language as a body of knowledge, the other on language as a vehicle of knowledge. Approaching language as a body of knowledge one faces questions concerning its structure, and the relation with other types of knowledge. One will ask, then, how language is acquired and to what extent the acquisition of language and the structure of the language faculty model relevant aspects of other cognitive capacities. If language is approached as a vehicle for knowledge, the question comes up what enables linguistic entities to represent facts about the world. To what extent does this reply on conventional aspects of mean ings? Is it possible for language, when used non-conventionally as in metaphors, to convey intersubjective knowledge? If so (and it does seem to be the case), one may wonder what makes this possible. The aim of this conference was to investigate the role of conceptual structure in cognitive processes, exploring it from the perspectives of philosophy of language, linguistics, political philosophy, psychology, liter ary theory, aesthetics, and philosophy of science. The themes of these three volumes reflect the themes of the conference.
Semantics and The Lexicon
Author : James Pustejovsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401119724
Book Description
The goal of this book is to integrate the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and concerns of each other's fields. Therefore, this book is interesting in that it provides a stimulating and unique discussion between the computational perspective of lexical meaning and the concerns of the linguist for the semantic description of lexical items in the context of syntactic descriptions. This book grew out of the papers presented at a workshop held at Brandeis University in April, 1988, funded by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. The entire workshop as well as the discussion periods accom panying each talk were recorded. Once complete copies of each paper were available, they were distributed to participants, who were asked to provide written comments on the texts for review purposes. VII JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY 1. INTRODUCTION There is currently a growing interest in the content of lexical entries from a theoretical perspective as well as a growing need to understand the organization of the lexicon from a computational view. This volume attempts to define the directions that need to be taken in order to achieve the goal of a coherent theory of lexical organization.
Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference
Author : Hana Filip
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136801162
Book Description
First published in 1999. This book examines the interplay between the semantics of noun phrases and verbal predicates, with an emphasis on data drawn from Czech and English, and comparisons to German and Finnish. This book will be of interest to a wide range of linguists concerned with aspect and how it interacts with lexical semantics, morphology, syntax and quantification.
Phrase Structure in Natural Language
Author : M.J. Speas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400920458
Book Description
A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives
Author : Moreno Mitrović
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725754X
Book Description
This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been treated superficially in the linguistic literature. In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession – and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages.
The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar
Author : Hella Olbertz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1998-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027281890
Book Description
The papers collected in this volume concern five different aspects of the role of the lexicon in the theory of Functional Grammar such as developed by Simon C. Dik and his co-workers. The volume starts off with an eminently practical section on the Functional-Lexematic Model, a lexicological and lexicographical system which has largely been inspired by Dik’s principle of stepwise lexical decomposition. In addition to a theoretical introduction to the model, applications to English, German and Spanish are presented. The second part of the volume deals with the derivation of action-nouns, pseudo-reflexive verbs and causative constructions, thus offering new perspectives on predicate formation within Functional Grammar. This is followed by a section that centres around an important problem related to valency which up to now has had almost no attention within Functional Grammar: the question of how to account for the collocational properties of predicates. The fourth part of the book discusses (non-prototypical) transitive verbs and their relation to the typology of states of affairs, which leads to proposals of possible adaptations of Dik’s typology. The final section focusses on the relationship between the lexicon and the underlying structure of the clause. Three proposals of varying degrees of radicalism are presented to reconsider this relation.
