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An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole.
List of contents
Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Lexicon in Linguistic Theory: 1. Introduction; 2. Lexicon and syntax; 3. Lexicon in syntactic frameworks; 4. Lexicon and semantics; 5. Lexicon in semantic frameworks; Part II. Lexical Structures: 6. The structure of a lexical entry; 7. Semantic typing and decomposition; 8. Argument structure; 9. Lexical aspect, tense, and modality; Part III. Lexicon as a System: 10. General architecture of the lexicon; 11. Compositionality in the mapping from the lexicon to syntax; Answers to selected exercises; Online resources; Glossary; References; Subject index; Name index.
About the author
James Pustejovsky is the TJX Feldberg Chair in Computer Science at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, where he is also Chair of the Linguistics Program, Chair of the Computational Linguistics M.A. Program, and Director of the Lab for Linguistics and Computation. His research interests include semantics and the lexicon, temporal and spatial reasoning, multimodal communication, language-vision interaction, linguistic annotation, linguistic tool support for the digital humanities, and machine learning.Olga Batiukova is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she received her Ph.D. in Spanish Language and General Linguistics. She has researched and published in areas involving lexical theory and its impact on lexicography, syntax-lexicon interface, morphological encoding of lexical information, verbal aspect, and psycholinguistic study of aspectual features.
Summary
An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole. The Lexicon can be used for introductory and advanced courses, and includes a range of exercises and in-class activities designed to engage students, and help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need.
