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Title

Semantics and the lexicon / edited by James Pustejovsky.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academics Publishers, ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Pustejovsky, J. (James)

Description

vii, 416 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

This book integrates 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, the 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. The volume is divided into three sections. Part one deals with the fundamentals of lexical structure and what constitutes a lexical semantic representation for a grammatical theory. Part two deals with the specific mappings that are necessary from a lexical semantic representation to the syntax. Finally, Part three addresses the possibility of modeling lexical knowledge with computational uses in mind. The unifying assumption behind all these works is that methodologies in computational linguistics and theoretical linguistics have converged, and that the goals of both fields are the same: to investigate the phenomenon of language in a rigorous and analytic way, for the purpose of establishing how it fits into the larger domain of intelligent human behavior. -- Publisher description.

Series Statement

Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 49

Uniform Title

Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 49.

Subject

• Semantics
• Lexicology
• Semantics
• semantics
• Semantiek
• Mentale lexicon
• Lexicologie
• Syntaxe
• Sémantique
• Lexicologie > Informatique

Note

• "This book grew out of the papers presented at a workshop held at Brandeis University in April, 1988"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction / James Plusteiovsky ---- Part I. Fundamentals of lexical structure. 2. X-bar semantics / Ray Jackendoff --- 3. The syntax of metaphorical semantic roles / Georg Lakoff --- 4. Levels of lexical representation / Malka Rappaport, Mary Laughren, and Beth Levin --- 5. Case marking and the semantics of mental verbs / William Croft --- 6. Type coercion and lexical selection / James Pustejovsky ---- Part II. Mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. 7. Nominalization and predicative prepositional phrases / Jane Grimshaw and Edwin Williams --- 8. Adjectives, nominals, and the status of arguments / Robert J.P. Ingria and Leland M. George --- 9. Unaccusativity in Dutch : integrating syntax and lexical semantics / Annie Zaenen --- 10. Verbs in depictives and resultatives / T.R. Rapoport --- 11. Explicit syntax in the lexicon : the representation of nominalizations / Tom Roeper ---- Part III. Computational models of lexical knowledge. 12. Lexical structure and conceptual structures / John F. Sowa --- 13. Lexical semantic constraints / Dan Fass --- 14. Lexical and conceptual structures for knowledge based translation / Sergei Nirenburg and Christine Defrise --- 15. Models for lexical knowledge bases / Branimir Boguraev and Beth Levin --- 16. Providing machine tractable dictionary tools / Yorick Wilks [and others].

ISBN

• 079231963X
• 9780792319634
• 0792323866
• 9780792323860
• 9789048142040
• 9048142040

LCCN

92028758

OCLC

• ocm26397461
• 26397461
• SCSB-1995789

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library