The Language of Word Meaning
Pierrette Bouillon & Federica Busa (eds.)
Cambridge University Press (2001)
| Abstract | This volume is a collection of original contributions from outstanding scholars in linguistics, philosophy and computational linguistics exploring the relation between word meaning and human linguistic creativity. The papers present different aspects surrounding the question of what is word meaning, a problem that has been the center of heated debate in all those disciplines that directly or indirectly are concerned with the study of language and of human cognition. The discussions are centered around the newly emerging view of the mental lexicon, as outlined in the Generative Lexicon theory (Pustejovsky, 1995), which proposes a unified model for defining word meaning. The individual contributors present their evidence for a generative approach as well as critical perspectives, which provides for a volume where word meaning is not viewed only from a particular angle or from a particular concern, but from a wide variety of topics, each introduced and explained by the editors. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Semantics Creativity (Linguistics Generative grammar Computational linguistics | |||||||||
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| Call number | P325.L295 2001 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521780489 9780521780483 | |||||||||
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