The Lexicon in Focus
Competition and Convergence in Current Lexicology
Published on 6. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 219 pages
978-3-631-39422-9 (ISBN)
Description
When something is in focus, light falls on it from different angles. The lexicon can be viewed from different sides. Six views are represented in this volume: a cognitivist view of vagueness and lexicalization, a psycholinguistic view of lexical access in speech production, a patholinguistic view of lexical organization in schizophrenics, and three analyses from different points of view in computational linguistics, which deal with problems of the syntax-semantics interface, compositionality, and systematic polysemy. A metalinguistic initial contribution outlines the historical development of lexical semantics with its complementary, competing and converging strands. The introduction completes this integration of the different facets of research into a wider picture of lexicology.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
figures, 4 tables
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-39422-9 (9783631394229)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
The Editors: Leila Behrens is currently a researcher at the University of Cologne. Since 1988, she has taught general and theoretical linguistics, and computational lexicology in Munich, Marburg and Cologne. Her research focuses on ambiguity and alternation, lexical typology and cross-linguistic differences in semantics, e.g. in genericity.
Dietmar Zaefferer is currently professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Munich. His first book was a formal treatment of Speech Act Theory. Further interests include linguistic typology, the lexical semantics-syntax interface and lexicogrammatic databases.
Dietmar Zaefferer is currently professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Munich. His first book was a formal treatment of Speech Act Theory. Further interests include linguistic typology, the lexical semantics-syntax interface and lexicogrammatic databases.
Content
Contents: Leila Behrens/Dietmar Zaeffer: Introduction - Dirk Geeraerts: The Theoretical and Descriptive Development of Lexical Semantics - Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Lexical Vagueness, Referential Variation and Lexicalization - Ardi Roelofs: Modeling of Lexical Access in Speech Production: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on the Lexicon - Michael Schecker: The Frayed Thread of Associations in Schizophrenics and What It Tells Us about How the Brain Processes Lexical Items - Jürgen Oesterle: Measure Expressions and Lexicon Theory - Dafydd Gibbon: Compositionality in the Inheritance Lexicon: English Nouns - James Pustejovsky: Polysemy and Underspecification.