The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface

[Bert Peeters]

Now available in print... a topic that has a lot of cognitive linguists
talking.

THE LEXICON - ENCYCLOPEDIA INTERFACE
Edited by B. Peeters, University of Tasmania
Volume 5 in the Current Research in
the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Book Series
ISBN: 0-08-043591-2 * Hardbound * 508 pages
* NLG 201.00 (euro 91.21) USD 102.00

Questions about the exact nature of linguistic as opposed to
non-linguistic
knowledge have been asked for as long as humans have studied language,
be it
as linguists, philosophers, psychologists, language teachers,
semioticians
or cognitive scientists. This distinction has been maintained and
defended
by some, attacked and abandoned by others. Through specially
commissioned
papers for this, the fifth volume in the CRiSPI series, contributors
argue
both for and against the distinction between lexical knowledge and
encyclopedic knowledge and debate how it should be drawn.

AUDIENCE:

Interdisciplinary, but particularly recommended for linguists involved
in
lexical semantics.

CONTENTS:

Bert Peeters (pp. 1-52)
Setting the scene: Some recent milestones in the lexicon-encyclopedia
debate

I. ASSESSMENTS

Anne Reboul (pp. 55-95)
Words, concepts, mental representations and other biological categories

Carlos Inchaurralde (pp. 97-114)
Lexicopedia

John Taylor (pp. 115-141)
Approaches to word meaning: The network model (Langacker) and the
two-level model (Bierwisch) in comparison

II. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING

Pierre Larrivée (pp. 145-167)
Linguistic meaning, knowledge, and utterance interpretation

Keith Allan (pp. 169-217)
Quantity implicatures and the lexicon

William Croft (pp. 219-256)
The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies

III. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

Richard Hudson & Jasper Holmes (pp. 259-290)
Re-cycling in the encyclopedia

Eva Born-Rauchenecker (pp. 291-316)
Towards an operationalisation of the lexicon-encyclopedia distinction: A
case study in the description of verbal meanings
in Russian

M. Lynne Murphy (pp. 317-348)
Knowledge of words versus knowledge about words: The conceptual basis of
lexical relations

Heidi Harley & Rolf Noyer (pp. 349-374)
Formal versus encyclopedic properties of vocabulary: Evidence from
nominalisations

IV. GRAMMAR

Joseph Hilferty (pp. 377-392)
Grammar, the lexicon, and encyclopedic knowledge: Is there such a thing
as informational encapsulation?

Rob Pensalfini (pp. 393-431)
Encyclopedia-lexicon distinctions in Jingulu grammar

V. FURTHER AFIELD

Susanne Feigenbaum (pp. 435-461)
Lexical and encyclopedic knowledge in an ab initio German reading course

Victor Raskin, Salvatore Attardo & Donalee H. Attardo (pp. 463-486)
Augmenting linguistic semantics descriptions for NLP: Lexical knowledge,
encyclopedic knowledge, event structure

Author index (pp. 487-491)
Subject index (pp. 493-498)
Language index (p. 499)

REVIEW:
'A trenchant discussion of what is now felt as one of the most exciting
 problems of natural language semantics and pragmatics, namely the
 possibility of separating questions of meaning from questions of
factual
 knowledge.' Jaroslav Peregrin, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech
Republic

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the
series visit the website at:

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