Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pustejovsky, James. (Editor), Bouillon, Pierrette. (Editor), Isahara, Hitoshi. (Editor), Kanzaki, Kyoko. (Editor), Lee, Chungmin. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 46
• Subjects: Computer science.; Translators (Computer programs).; Information systems.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5189-7

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Type Theory and Lexical Decomposition
• Chapter 3: A Type Composition Logic for Generative Lexicon �
• Chapter 4: Lexical Representation, Co-composition, and Linking Syntax and Semantics
• Chapter 5: The Telic Relationship in Compounds �
• Chapter 6: Metonymy and Metaphor: Boundary Cases and the Role of a Generative Lexicon �
• Chapter 7: Spanish Clitics, Events and Opposition Structure �
• Chapter 8: Adjective-noun Combinations and the Generative Lexicon �
• Chapter 9: Combination of the Verb Ha- Do and Entity Type Nouns in Korean: A Generative Lexicon
• Chapter 10: Generative Lexicon Approach to Derived Inchoative Verbs in Korean
• Chapter 11: Degree Vs. Manner Well: A Case Study in Selective Binding
• Chapter 12: V-concatenation in Japanese
• Chapter 13: Change of Location and Change of State
• Chapter 14: Event Structure and the Japanese Indirect Passive
• Chapter 15: Developing a Generative Lexicon Within HPSG
• Chapter 16: Purpose Verbs
• Chapter 17: Word Formation Rules and the Generative Lexicon: Representing Noun-to-Verb Versus Verb-to-Noun Conversion in French
• Chapter 18: Boosting Lexical Resources for the Semantic Web: Generative Lexicon and Lexicon Interoperability
• Chapter 19: Automatic Acquisition of GL Resources, Using an Explanatory, Symbolic Technique
• Chapter 20: The Semi-generative Lexicon: Limits on Productivity .