{"product_id":"generative-lexicon-book-james-pustejovsky-9780262661409","title":"The Generative Lexicon","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, \u003ci\u003eThe Generative Lexicon\u003c\/i\u003e lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Generative Lexicon\u003c\/i\u003e presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the \"multiplicity of word meaning\"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn contrast to the static view of word meaning (where each word is characterized by a predetermined number of word senses) that imposes a tremendous bottleneck on the performance capability of any natural language processing system, Pustejovsky proposes that the lexicon becomes an active-and central-component in the linguistic description. The essence of his theory is that the lexicon functions generatively, first by providing a rich and expressive vocabulary for characterizing lexical information; then, by developing a framework for manipulating fine-grained distinctions in word descriptions; and finally, by formalizing a set of mechanisms for specialized composition of aspects of such descriptions of words, as they occur in context, extended and novel senses are generated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe subjects covered include semantics of nominals (figure\/ground nominals, relational nominals, and other event nominals); the semantics of causation (in particular, how causation is lexicalized in language, including causative\/unaccusatives, aspectual predicates, experiencer predicates, and modal causatives); how semantic types constrain syntactic expression (such as the behavior of type shifting and type coercion operations); a formal treatment of event semantics with subevents); and a general treatment of the problem of polysemy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguage, Speech, and Communication series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49985845199121,"sku":"CIN0262661403G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52401342611729,"sku":"NLS9780262661409","price":90.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53581206061329,"sku":"CIN0262661403A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262661403.jpg?v=1751070438","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/generative-lexicon-book-james-pustejovsky-9780262661409","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}