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 …

Polysemy is the type of lexical ambiguity where a word has multiple distinct but related
interpretations. In the past decade, it has been the subject of a great many studies across …

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 …

One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy
approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general …

In this paper we provide a description of TimeML, a rich specification language for event and
temporal expressions in natural language text, developed in the context of the AQUAINT …

I would like to discuss an approach to the mind that considers language and similar
phenomena to be elements of the natural world, to be studied by ordinary methods of …

Abstract 'Transfers of meaning'are linguistic mechanisms that make it possible to use the
same expression to refer to disjoint sorts of things. Here I discuss predicate transfer, an …

In this paper we discuss various aspects of systematic or conventional polysemy and their
formal treatment within an implemented constraint-based approach to linguistic …

In the logical, philosophical and linguistic literature, a number of theoretical frameworks
have been proposed for the meaning of questions (see Ginzburg 1995, Groenendijk & …

Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the'know'and'wonder'
classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with respect to their interrogative …