The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E.
Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between …

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to
shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …

Page 1 Semantics Ray Jackendoff and Cognition Page 2 Page 3 SEMANTICS AND COGNITION
This One A70Q-R8E-0AD1 Page 4 Current Studies in Linguistics Series Samuel Jay Keyser …

Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and
syntactic expression in English that builds on the system of Conceptual Semantics described …

WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, and adjectives are …

This paper will focus on the semantic representation of verbs in computer systems and its
impact on lexical selection problems in machine translation (MT). Two groups of English and …

For the purposes of this paper, I will assume without question a certain framework of
principles and will explore some of the problems that arise when they are applied in the …

The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word
semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics …

Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of
the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable difficulties for many …