Towards a Type-Theoretical Account of Lexical Semantics

After a quick overview of the field of study known as “Lexical Semantics”, where we advocate the need of accessing additional information besides syntax and Montague- style semantics at the lexical level in order to complete the full analysis of an utterance, we summarize the current formulations of...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Journal of logic, language, and information no. 19; pp. 229 - 245
Main Authors:	Bassac, Christian, Mery, Bruno, Retoré, Christian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Verlag 2010
Subjects:	Computation and Language Computer Science Lexical Semantics Type Theory Montague Semantics
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	After a quick overview of the field of study known as “Lexical Semantics”, where we advocate the need of accessing additional information besides syntax and Montague- style semantics at the lexical level in order to complete the full analysis of an utterance, we summarize the current formulations of a well-known theory of that field. We then propose and justify our own model of the Generative Lexicon Theory, based upon a variation of classical compositional semantics, and outline its formalization. Additionally, we discuss the theoretical place of informational, knowledge-related data supposed to exist within the lexicon as well as within discourse and other linguistic constructs.
ISSN:	0925-8531 1572-9583