Semantics and the Lexicon / Edition 1

by James Pustejovsky

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048142040
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/03/2010
Series:	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy , #49
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Preface.- 1. Introduction.- Part I: Fundamentals of Lexical Structure. 2. X'-Semantics. 3. The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles. 4. Levels of Lexical Representation. 5. Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs. 6. Type Coercion and Lexical Selection.- Part II: Mapping from Lexical Semantics and Syntax. 7. Nominalization and Predicative Prepositional Phrases. 8. Adjectives, Nominals, and the Status of Arguments. 9. Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating Syntax and Lexical Semantics. 10. Verbs in Depictives and Resultatives. 11. Explicit Syntax in the Lexicon: the Representation of Nominalizations.- Part III: Computational Models of Lexical Knowledge. 12. Lexical Structure and Conceptual Structure. 13. Lexical Semantic Constraints. 14. Lexical and Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Based Translation. 15. Models for Lexical Knowledge Bases. 16. Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools.- Name Index.- Subject Index.