Screen LibraryAdvances in the theory of the lexicon /
The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectio...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2006 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Interface explorations [ie] ;
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| Summary: |
The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based network models. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in all fields of linguistics and in the cognitive sciences. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(502pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110197815 |
| Index Number: | P326 |
| CLC: | H03 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction:What the study of the lexicon is -- about -- Concepts of the lexicon in theoretical -- linguistics -- Towards a structural typology of verb -- classes -- From rags to riches. Nominal linking in contrast to -- verbal linking -- A theory of Lexical Event Structures and its -- cognitive motivation -- The Ontology and diachrony of polysynthesis -- Linguistic perspectives on morphological -- processing -- The representation of inflectional morphology in -- the mental lexicon: An overview on psycho- and neurolinguistic methods -- and results -- Inheritance-based models of the lexicon -- Backmatter |