.../licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. As a natural language evolves, the meanings of words within the language change. The field of diachronic lexical semantics is concerned with how word meanings change over...

... of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. Email: [email protected] . concepts fMRI lexical semantics semantic model sentence processing We initially undertook a preliminary analysis to identify a network of brain regions processing semantics on which to focus our 4 main analyses. The first...

...-level fMRI data into activation features for component words, which can be recombined to predict activation patterns for new sentences. concepts embodiment lexical semantics multimodal model semantic memory Considerable progress has been made over recent decades in understanding how conceptual...

...Leonardo Fernandino; Jeffrey R. Binder; Rutvik H. Desai; Suzanne L. Pendl; Colin J. Humphries; William L. Gross; Lisa L. Conant; Mark S. Seidenberg concepts embodiment fMRI lexical semantics multimodal processing semantic memory These integrative neural structures reflect the fact...

... is concerned with the effects of nicotine on lexical-semantic processing. Abstract Nicotine has been shown to improve various aspects of cognitive processing such as attention and memory, however, its effects on lexical-semantic processing are relatively uncharted. Recent investigations of mnemonic processing...

...Carla Marello; Rosamund Moon 1Corso Unione Sovietica 115, I‐10134 Torino, Italy. Email: [email protected] 2 [email protected] Copyright Oxford University Press 2002 2002 applied linguistics; lexicography; NLP; corpus; dictionaries; lexical semantics ...

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... about lexicography? What is the relationship between cognitive linguistics and lexicography, the applied linguistic sister discipline of lexicology and lexical semantics? In line with earlier metalexicographical discussions of the relationship between cognitive linguistics and lexicography, this article...

... subjects subjects zero anaphora in conversation Gawron J M event structure relations generalizations systematic relations Fillmore C J and B T S Atkins case roles lexical semantics thematic roles polysemy antonymy frames perspective negation synonymy Boas H C Halliday M A K and R Hasan...

..., then illustrates its application to several domains of lexical semantics. The NSM concepts of semantic templates and semantic molecules are introduced in this context. The chapter next turns to grammatical semantics, covering select topics in universal grammar, the use of semantic prototypes for anchoring...

... ‘Everyone is known by Mary that a policeman saw.’ (Bruening 2001 : 256) This article adopts a syntactic perspective on issues traditionally considered within the domain of lexical semantics and argument structure. It also addresses the organization and licensing of arguments in the syntax across widely...

...This paper discusses three aspects of the study of linguistic meaning—lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics—and their relation to grammar. Lexical semantics concerns the meanings of words and relations between these meanings, and how these meanings are realized...

... frameworks that are used include Jackendoff’s Conceptual Structure, Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, Lieber’s lexical semantic approach to word formation, Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon, Beard’s Lexeme-Morpheme-Base Morphology and the onomasiological approach to terminology and word formation. An extensive...

...Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently...

...This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic from a lexical semantic perspective. Peter...

... of investigating important aspects of morphology and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. The book reports on the state of the art in these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and approaches to cross...

...Following Minimalist and Lexical Semantics assumptions, this chapter will analyze the role played by uninterpreted aspectual or Aktionsart features (or internal temporal organization properties of events) in constraining intrasentential Spanish/English codeswitching involving the verb and its...

... unification subject induced coercions functionally dependent verb readings and co compositionality co-compositionality linguistic expression semantic theory semantic composition lexical semantics Co-compositionality is a semantic property of a linguistic expression in which all...

... Statistical Machine Translation SMT summarization cross language information retrieval CLIR Cross Lingual Evaluation Forum word sense disambiguation natural-language understanding lexical semantics knowledge-based supervised learning unsupervised learning Many words have multiple possible...