Semantics and The Lexicon

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • James Pustejovsky

      Pages 1-11

3. Fundamentals of Lexical Structure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. X-Bar Semantics

      • Ray Jackendoff

      Pages 15-26

   3. The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles

      • George Lakoff

      Pages 27-36

   4. Levels of Lexical Representation

      • Malka Rappaport, Beth Levin, Mary Laughren

      Pages 37-54

   5. Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs

      • William Croft

      Pages 55-72

   6. Type Coercion and Lexical Selection

      • James Pustejovsky

      Pages 73-94

4. Mapping from Lexical Semantics to Syntax

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Nominalization and Predicative Prepositional Phrases

      • Jane Grimshaw, Edwin Williams

      Pages 97-105

   3. Adjectives, Nominals, and the Status of Arguments

      • Robert J. P. Ingria, Leland M. George

      Pages 107-127

   4. Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating Syntax and Lexical Semantics

      • Annie Zaenen

      Pages 129-161

   5. Verbs in Depictives and Resultatives

      • T. R. Rapoport

      Pages 163-184

   6. Explicit Syntax in the Lexicon: the Representation of Nominalizations

      • Thomas Roeper

      Pages 185-220

5. Computational Models of Lexical Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Lexical Structures and Conceptual Structures

      • John F. Sowa

      Pages 223-262

   3. Lexical Semantic Constraints

      • Dan Fass

      Pages 263-289

   4. Lexical and Conceptual Structure for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation

      • Sergei Nirenburg, Christine Defrise

      Pages 291-323

   5. Models for Lexical Knowledge Bases

      • Branimir Boguraev, Beth Levin

      Pages 325-340

The goal of this book is to integrate the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and concerns of each other's fields. Therefore, this book is interesting in that it provides a stimulating and unique discussion between the computational perspective of lexical meaning and the concerns of the linguist for the semantic description of lexical items in the context of syntactic descriptions. This book grew out of the papers presented at a workshop held at Brandeis University in April, 1988, funded by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. The entire workshop as well as the discussion periods accom­ panying each talk were recorded. Once complete copies of each paper were available, they were distributed to participants, who were asked to provide written comments on the texts for review purposes. VII JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY 1. INTRODUCTION There is currently a growing interest in the content of lexical entries from a theoretical perspective as well as a growing need to understand the organization of the lexicon from a computational view. This volume attempts to define the directions that need to be taken in order to achieve the goal of a coherent theory of lexical organization.

• adjective
• concept
• knowledge
• knowledge base
• model
• predicative
• preposition
• prepositional phrase
• semantic
• semantics
• structure
• translation

• Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University, USA

  James Pustejovsky

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