导读

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Word Meaning and Creativity

Part I Linguistic Creativity and the Lexicon

 1 Introduction

 2 Chomsky on the Creative Aspect of Language Use and Its Implications for Lexical Semantic Studies

 3 The Emptiness of the Lexicon：Critical Reflections on J. Pustejovsky’s “The Generative Lexicon”

 4 Generativity and Explanation in Semantics: A Reply to Fodor and Lepore

 5 The “Fodor”FODOR Fallacy Bites Back

Part II The Syntax of Word Meaning

 6 Introduction

 7 Type Construction and the Logic of Concepts

 8 Underspecification, Context Selection, and Generativity

 9 Qualia and the Structuring of Verb Meaning

 10 Sense Variation and Lexical Semantics: Generative Operations

 11 Individuation by Partitive Constructions in Spanish

 12 Event Coreference in Causal Discourses

Part III Interfacing the Lexicon

 13 Introduction

 14 Metaphor, Creative Understanding, and the Generative Lexicon

 15 Metaphor in Discourse

 16 Syntax and Metonymy

 17 Generative Lexicon Meets Corpus Data: The Case of Nonstandard Word Uses

Part IV Building Resources

 18 Introduction

 19 Generative Lexicon and the SIMPLE Model: Developing Semantic Resources for NLP

 20 Lexicography Informs Lexical Semantics:The SIMPLE Experience

 21 Condensed Meaning in EuroWordNet

Index

本书以生成词汇理论(Generative Lexicon Theory；又称衍生词汇理论，以下简写为GL理论)为主线，收录了语言学、哲学和计算语言学等领域杰出学者们的原创性著作。内容围绕着“什么是词义”这一人类语言与认知科学的核心问题展开，旨在从理论与实践的多个层面深入探索词义与人类语言创造性之间的关系。