The Language of Word Meaning

By: Federica Busa (Editor), Pierrette Bouillon (Editor)

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This volume is a collection of original contributions from outstanding scholars in linguistics, philosophy and computational linguistics exploring the relation between word meaning and human linguistic creativity. The papers present different aspects surrounding the question of what is word meaning, a problem that has been the centre of heated debate in all those disciplines that directly or indirectly are concerned with the study of language and of human cognition. The discussions are centred around a view of the mental lexicon, as outlined in the Generative Lexicon theory (Pustejovsky, 1995), which proposes a unified model for defining word meaning. The individual contributors present their evidence for a generative approach as well as critical perspectives, which provides for a volume where word meaning is not viewed only from a particular angle or from a particular concern, but from a wide variety of topics, each introduced and explained by the editors.

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Review of the hardback: 'Editors Bouillon and Busa deserve high praise for their selection of a wide range of divergent views on this subject, some of which are antithetical to their own beliefs ... This book ... provides a thorough and even-handed account of the enigmatic question of world meaning. Moreover, it offers some reasonable ways to address this topic.' Journal of Literary Semantics

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Preface
Introduction: word meaning and creativity
Linguistic Creativity and the Lexicon
Introduction
Chomsky on the creative aspect of language use and its implications for lexical semantic studies
The emptiness of the lexicon: critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's 'The Generative Lexicon'
Generativity and explanation in semantics: a reply to Fodor and Lepore
The 'Fodor'-FODOR fallacy bites back
The Syntax of Word Meaning
Introduction
Type construction and the logic of concepts
Underspecification, context selection and generativity
Qualia and the structuring of verb meaning
Sense variation and lexical semantics generative operations
Individuation by partitive constructions in
Event co-reference in causal discourses
Interfacing the Lexicon
Introduction
Metaphor, creative understanding and the generative lexicon
Metaphor in discourse
Syntax and metonymy
Generative lexicon meets corpus data: the case of non-standard word uses
Building Resources
Introduction
Generative lexicon and the SIMPLE model: developing semantic resources for NLP
Lexicography informs lexical semantics: the SIMPLE experience
Condensed meaning in EuroWordNet
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