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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454192103321

Titolo

Advances in the theory of the lexicon [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dieter Wunderlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

1-282-19417-8

9786612194177

3-11-916403-8

3-11-019781-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 p.)

Collana

Interface explorations ; ; 13

Altri autori (Persone)

WunderlichDieter

Disciplina

895.1/35

Soggetti

Lexicology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.