Lexical Knowledge in the Organization of Language (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027236178 ISBN 13: 9789027236173

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

Synopsis

This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991. All contributions relate to the assumption that lexical knowledge plays a central role in the organization of language, inasmuch as the components or modules of grammar come together and interact in the lexicon. Originating in various traditions of linguistic thought, however, the individual papers reflect differing interests and are based upon different conceptions of the lexicon, its status and interfaces. There is the position of current generative linguistics, which aims at accounting for structural properties of the lexicon within syntactic theory. There is also the perspective of model-theoretical semantics, where borderline phenomena between lexical semantics and the semantics of sentence and text receive particular attention. Still another group of papers directly discusses problems of lexical semantics, focussing on representational and conceptual aspects of word meanings. The notion of a two-level semantics as well as cross-linguistic analyses are characteristic of these contributions. The book closes with a comparative and historical study of lexical evolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027236178
• ISBN 13: 9789027236173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 381
• Editor: Egli Urs, Pause Peter E., Schwarze Christoph, Stechow Arnim, Wienold Götz