Semantics and the Lexicon (Paperback)

1. Introduction.- I: Fundamentals of Lexical Structure.- 2.X-Bar Semantics.- 3.The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles.- 4.Levels of Lexical Representation.- 5.Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs.- 6.Type Coercion and Lexical Selection.- II: Mapping from Lexical Semantics to Syntax.- 7.Nominalization and Predicative Prepositional Phrases.- 8.Adjectives, Nominals, and the Status of Arguments.- 9.Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating Syntax and Lexical Semantics.- 10.Verbs in Depictives and Resultatives.- 11.Explicit Syntax in the Lexicon:the Representation of Nominalizations.- III: Computational Models of Lexical Knowledge.- 12.Lexical Structure and Conceptual Structures.- 13.Lexical Semantic Constraints.- 14.Lexical and Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Based Translation.- 15.Models for Lexical Knowledge Bases.- 16.Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools.- Name Index.