The Language of Word Meaning

1. Preface James Pustejovsky 2. Introduction: word meaning and creativity Pierrette Bouillon and Federica Busa Part I. Linguistic Creativity and the Lexicon: 3. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon 4. Chomsky on the creative aspect of language use and its implications for lexical semantic studies James McGilvray 5. The emptiness of the lexicon: critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's 'The Generative Lexicon' Jerry A. Fodor and Ernie Lepore 6. Generativity and explanation in semantics: a reply to Fodor and Lepore James Pustejovsky 7. The 'Fodor'-FODOR fallacy bites back Yorick Wilks Part II. The Syntax of Word Meaning: 8. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon 9. Type construction and the logic of concepts James Pustejovsky 10. Underspecification, context selection and generativity Jacques Jayez 11. Qualia and the structuring of verb meaning Pierrette Bouillon and Federica Busa 12. Sense variation and lexical semantics generative operations Patrick Saint-Dizier 13. Individuation by partitive constructions in Spanish Salvador Climent 14. Event co-reference in causal discourses Laurence Danlos Part III. Interfacing the Lexicon: 15. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon 16. Metaphor, creative understanding and the generative lexicon Julius M. Moravcsik 17. Metaphor in discourse Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides 18. Syntax and metonymy Jerry Hobbs 19. Generative lexicon meets corpus data: the case of non-standard word uses Adam Kilgarriff Part IV. Building Resources: 20. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon 21. Generative lexicon and the SIMPLE model: developing semantic resources for NLP Federica Busa, Nicoletta Calzolari and Alessando Lenci 22. Lexicography informs lexical semantics: the SIMPLE experience Nilda Ruimy, Elisabetta Gola and Monica Monachini 23. Condensed meaning in EuroWordNet Piek Vossen.