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Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory

  • Informative articles on basic theoretical mechanisms, analysis, interfacing and building Generative Lexicon related resources
  • Original contributions from outstanding scholars in computational and theoretical linguistics
  • The latest developments and trends in the Generative Lexicon Theory

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 46)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction

    • James Pustejovsky, Pierrette Bouillon, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Chungmin Lee
    Pages 1-7
  3. Type Theory and Lexical Decomposition

    • James Pustejovsky
    Pages 9-38
  4. A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon

    • Nicholas Asher, James Pustejovsky
    Pages 39-66
  5. The Telic Relationship in Compounds

    • Christian Bassac, Pierrette Bouillon
    Pages 109-126
  6. Spanish Clitics, Events and Opposition Structure

    • José M. Castaño
    Pages 147-179
  7. Adjective-Noun Combinations and the Generative Lexicon

    • Irena Drašković, James Pustejovsky, Rob Schreuder
    Pages 181-202
  8. Generative Lexicon Approach to Derived Inchoative Verbs in Korean

    • Yoon-shin Kim, Chungmin Lee
    Pages 227-246
  9. Degree vs. Manner Well: A Case Study in Selective Binding

    • Louise McNally, Christopher Kennedy
    Pages 247-262
  10. V-Concatenation in Japanese

    • Kentaro Nakatani
    Pages 263-290
  11. Change of Location and Change of State

    • Chungmin Lee
    Pages 291-310
  12. Developing a Generative Lexicon Within HPSG

    • Toni Badia, Roser Saurí
    Pages 327-370
  13. Purpose Verbs

    • Christiane Fellbaum
    Pages 371-384
  14. Boosting Lexical Resources for the Semantic Web: Generative Lexicon and Lexicon Interoperability

    • Nicoletta Calzolari, Francesca Bertagna, Alessandro Lenci, Monica Monachini
    Pages 415-430

About this book

This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge in real linguistic usage. Today’s growing shift towards distributed compositional analyses evinces the applicability of GL theory, and the contributions to this volume, presented at three international workshops (GL-2003, GL-2005 and GL-2007) address the relationship between compositionality in language and the mechanisms of selection in grammar that are necessary to maintain this property. The core unresolved issues in compositionality, relating to the interpretation of context and the mechanisms of selection, are treated from varying perspectives within GL theory, including its basic theoretical mechanisms and its analytical viewpoint on linguistic phenomena.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department Of Computer Science, Volen Center for Comples Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

    James Pustejovsky

  • , Faculté de Traduction, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

    Pierrette Bouillon

  • , Information and Media Center, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

    Hitoshi Isahara

  • , Dept. of Ling Theory & Structure, Nat. Inst. f. Japanese Lang. and Ling., Tachikawa, Japan

    Kyoko Kanzaki

  • Dept. Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Chungmin Lee

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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