[Lexicog] Re: Semantics of verbs

[Paula Guerreiro]

Dear Helga,
Here's another reference.
I've received today notice on this recent item, from Mouton de Gruyter.
Notice that it assumes cognitive linguistics perspectives along with a
computation oriented framework.
Best,
Paula

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> Andrea C. Schalley
> COGNITIVE MODELING AND VERBAL SEMANTICS
> A Representational Framework Based on UML
>
> 2004. xviii, 446 pages. Cloth.
> EUR 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00
> ISBN 3-11-017951-2
> (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 154)
>
>
> http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110179512-1&l=E
>
> Date of Publication: 6/2004
>
>
> This book presents a unique approach to the semantics of verbs. It
> develops and specifies a decompositional representation framework for
> verbal semantics that is based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML),
> the graphical lingua franca for the design and modeling of
> object-oriented systems in computer science. The new framework combines
> formal precision with conceptual flexibility and allows the
> representation of very complicated details of verbal meaning, using a
> mixture of graphical elements as well as linearized constructs. Thereby,
> it offers a solution for different semantic problems such as
> context-dependency and polysemy. The latter, for instance, is
> demonstrated in one of the two well-elaborated applications of the
> framework within this book, the investigation of the polysemy of German
> setzen.
>
> Besides the formal specification of the framework, the book comprises a
> cognitive interpretation of important modeling elements, discusses
> general issues connected with the framework such as dynamic and static
> aspects of verbal meanings, questions of granularity, and general
> constraints applying to verbal semantics. Moreover, first steps towards
> a compositional semantics are undertaken, and a new verb classification
> based on this graphical approach is proposed.
>
> Since the framework is graphical in nature, the book contains many
> annotated figures, and the framework's modeling elements are illustrated
> by example diagrams. Not only scholars working in the field of
> linguistics, in particular in semantics, will find this book
> illuminating because of its new graphical approach, but also researchers
> of cognitive science, computational linguistics and computer science in
> general will surely appreciate it.
>
> Andrea C. Schalley is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New
> England, Australia.




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