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The Generative Lexicon (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Generative Lexicon (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Language, Speech, and Communication
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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
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