The study of processes underlying the interpretation of language often produces evidence
that they are complete and occur incrementally. However, computational linguistics has …

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creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the
comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order …

Topic modeling provides a valuable method for identifying the linguistic contexts that
surround social institutions or policy domains. This article uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation …

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that
distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical …

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of
word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in …

The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The
Generative Lexicon lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word …

In construction morphology, complex words are seen as constructions on the word level. The
notion 'construction', a pairing of form and meaning, as developed in the theory of …

Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central
claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …