Research Catalog

Title

The language of word meaning / edited by Pierrette Bouillon, Federica Busa.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Bouillon, Pierrette
• Busa, Federica

Description

xvi, 387 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in natural language processing

Subject

• Semantics
• Creativity (Linguistics)
• Generative grammar
• Computational linguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Linguistic creativity and the lexicon. Introduction / Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon ; Chomsky on the creative aspect of language use and its implications for lexical semantic studies / James McGilvray ; The emptiness of the lexicon : critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's "The generative lexicon" / Jerry A. Fodor and Ernie Lepore ; Generativity and explanation in semantics : a reply to Fodor and Lepore / James Pustejovsky ; The "Fodor"-FODOR fallacy bites back / Yorick Wilks -- The syntax of word meaning. Introduction / Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon ; Type construction and the logic of concepts / James Pustejovsky ; Underspecification, context selection, and generativity / Jacques Jayez ; Qualia and the structuring of verb meaning / Pierrette Bouillon and Federica Busa ; Sense variation and lexical semantics : generative operations / Patrick Saint-Dizier ; Individuation by partitive constructions in Spanish / Salvador Climent ; Event coreference in causal discourses / Laurence Danlos -- Interfacing the lexicon. Introduction / Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon ; Metaphor, creative understanding, and the generative lexicon / Julius M. Moravscik ; Metaphor in discourse / Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides ; Syntax and metonymy / Jerry Hobbs ; Generative lexicon meets corpus data : the case of nonstandard word uses / Adam Kilgarriff -- Building resources. Introduction / Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon ; Generative lexicon and the SIMPLE model : developing semantic resources for NLP / Federica Busa, Nicoletta Calzolari, and Alessandro Lenci ; Lexicography informs lexical semantics : the SIMPLE experience / Nilda Ruimy, Elisabetta Gola, and Monica Monachini ; Condensed meaning in EuroWordNet / Piek Vossen.

Call Number

JFE 02-12776

ISBN

0521780489 (hbk.)

LCCN

00041406

OCLC

44110484

Title

The language of word meaning / edited by Pierrette Bouillon, Federica Busa.

Imprint

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Series

Studies in natural language processing

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bouillon, Pierrette.

Busa, Federica.

Research Call Number

JFE 02-12776