Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Metaphor and other forms of non-literal language are essential parts of language which have direct bearing on theories of lexical semantics. Neither narrow theories of lexical sem...
This paper argues for a two-level theory of semantics as opposed to a one-level theory, based on the example of the system of temporal and durationM connectives. Instead of identi...
This paper argues that itisimpossible to separate lexicaland encyclopedic knowledge and describes an attempt to build a large lexical database that contains the range of informati...
Martha W. Evens, Joanne Dardaine, Yu-Feng Huang, S...
We consider lexicM operations and their representation in a unification based lexicon and the role of lexical semantic information. We describe a unified treatment of the linguist...