Advances In Generative Lexicon Theory

Author : James Pustejovsky,Pierrette Bouillon,Hitoshi Isahara,Kyoko Kanzaki,Chungmin Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
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Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789400751897

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Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory by James Pustejovsky,Pierrette Bouillon,Hitoshi Isahara,Kyoko Kanzaki,Chungmin Lee Pdf

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.

Author : James Pustejovsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262661403

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The Generative Lexicon by James Pustejovsky Pdf

The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics. The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics. In contrast to the static view of word meaning (where each word is characterized by a predetermined number of word senses) that imposes a tremendous bottleneck on the performance capability of any natural language processing system, Pustejovsky proposes that the lexicon becomes an active—and central—component in the linguistic description. The essence of his theory is that the lexicon functions generatively, first by providing a rich and expressive vocabulary for characterizing lexical information; then, by developing a framework for manipulating fine-grained distinctions in word descriptions; and finally, by formalizing a set of mechanisms for specialized composition of aspects of such descriptions of words, as they occur in context, extended and novel senses are generated. The subjects covered include semantics of nominals (figure/ground nominals, relational nominals, and other event nominals); the semantics of causation (in particular, how causation is lexicalized in language, including causative/unaccusatives, aspectual predicates, experiencer predicates, and modal causatives); how semantic types constrain syntactic expression (such as the behavior of type shifting and type coercion operations); a formal treatment of event semantics with subevents); and a general treatment of the problem of polysemy. Language, Speech, and Communication series

Author : Minghui Dong,Jingxia Lin,Xuri Tang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 772 pages
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Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319495088

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Minghui Dong,Jingxia Lin,Xuri Tang Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016. The 70 regular papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 182 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lexicon and morphology, the syntax-semantics interface, corpus and resource, natural language processing, case study of lexical semantics, extended study and application.

Author : Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su,Jiun-Shiung Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 820 pages
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Release : 2018-11-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030040154

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su,Jiun-Shiung Wu Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, in May 2018. The 50 full papers and 19 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical Semantics; Applications of Natural Language Processing; Lexical Resources; Corpus Linguistics.

Author : James Pustejovsky,Olga Batiukova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521839327

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The Lexicon by James Pustejovsky,Olga Batiukova Pdf

An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole. The Lexicon can be used for introductory and advanced courses, and includes a range of exercises and in-class activities designed to engage students, and help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need.

Author : Dieter Wunderlich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197815

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Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon by Dieter Wunderlich Pdf

The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based network models. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in all fields of linguistics and in the cognitive sciences.

Author : Olivier Bonami,Gilles Boyé ,Georgette Dal ,Hélène Giraudo , Fiammetta Namer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101108

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The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology by Olivier Bonami,Gilles Boyé ,Georgette Dal ,Hélène Giraudo , Fiammetta Namer Pdf

After being dominant during about a century since its invention by Baudouin de Courtenay at the end of the nineteenth century, morpheme is more and more replaced by lexeme in contemporary descriptive and theoretical morphology. The notion of a lexeme is usually associated with the work of P. H. Matthews (1972, 1974), who characterizes it as a lexical entity abstracting over individual inflected words. Over the last three decades, the lexeme has become a cornerstone of much work in both inflectional morphology and word formation (or, as it is increasingly been called, lexeme formation). The papers in the present volume take stock of the descriptive and theoretical usefulness of the lexeme, but also adress many of the challenges met by classical lexeme-based theories of morphology.

Author : James Pustejovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 0262281961

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The Generative Lexicon by James Pustejovsky Pdf

Author : Alexey Koshelev
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781644693698

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Essays on the Evolutionary-Synthetic Theory of Language by Alexey Koshelev Pdf

This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of the evolutionary-synthetic theory. The volume analyzes, among others, the mechanisms for grammatical polysemy, and brings to light the structural unity of artefact and natural concepts (such as CHAIR, ROAD, LAKE, RIVER, TREE). Additionally, object and motor concepts are defined in terms of the language of thought, and their representation in neurobiological memory codes is discussed; finally, the hierarchic structure of basic meanings of concrete nouns is shown to arise as a result of their step-by-step development in ontogeny.

Author : Benjamin J. Lappenga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004302457

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Paul’s Language of Ζῆλος by Benjamin J. Lappenga Pdf

In Paul’s Language of Ζῆλος, Benjamin Lappenga examines the concept of 'rightly-directed zeal' in Paul’s letters, utilizing a monosomic bias within the framework of relevance theory.

Author : Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781614512097

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Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation by Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez,Francisco Gonzálvez-García,Angela Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270146

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Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez,Francisco Gonzálvez-García,Angela Downing Pdf

The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning area of research through the notion of functional-cognitive space, namely, the topography of the space occupied by functional, cognitivist and/or constructionist models against the background of formalist approaches in general and of Chomsky’s Minimalism in particular. Specifically, the twelve contributions in the present volume update the reader on recent developments in functionalism (Systemic Functional Grammar, Functional Discourse Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar) and cognitivism (Word Grammar, (Cognitive) Construction Grammar and the Lexical Contructional Model). Plotting cognitive-space proves particularly adequate for situating the six models represented in this volume, not only in relation to each other, but also potentially with respect to a wide spectrum of functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models.

Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262312868

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Lexical Analysis by Patrick Hanks Pdf

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing. Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal usage—between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, generative lexicon theory, priming theory, and pattern grammar.

Author : Leo Wanner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230423

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Recent Trends in Meaning-text Theory by Leo Wanner Pdf

The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories. Founded by I. Mel'cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a “prominent outsider” theory. The picture changed since then, though. MTT gained importance in several areas of linguistics and computational linguistics. It influenced the design of new grammar formalisms such as Dependency Tree Grammars. Also, specific parts of MTT have been directly overtaken into other theories; consider, for example, the work on integrating Lexical Functions into Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon. The present volume is a further convincing demonstration of MTT's liveliness and relevance to the field's “burning” issues. The focus of the volume is on semantics, semantic representation and relation of semantics to surface in MTT. Six out of eight articles (Polguère; Escalier & Fournier; Paducheva; St.-Germain; Beck; Bogulavsky) deal with problems related to these topics, while the last two articles of the volume (Sgall and Rambow; Joshi) throw a bridge between MTT, or, more precisely, between dependency-based theories of which MTT is one instantiation, and other linguistic theories.

Author : Anna Bondaruk,Anna Prażmowska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443879859

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Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume I) by Anna Bondaruk,Anna Prażmowska Pdf

This is the first volume in a series of three books called Within Language, Beyond Theories, which focuses on current linguistic research surpassing the limits of contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to gain new insights into the structure of the language system and to offer more explanatorily adequate accounts of linguistic phenomena from a number of the world's languages. This volume brings together twenty-five papers pertaining to theoretical linguistics, and consists of three par ...