[Lexicog] New Book Announcement: Festschrift for Patrick Hanks

[Gilles-Maurice de Schryver]

A Way with Words: Recent Advances in Lexical Theory and Analysis

A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks

 

Editor: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Publisher: Menha Publishers (http://menhapublishers.com/)

 

Summary:

 

This landmark publication is a Festschrift for the famous corpus linguist
and lexicographer Patrick Hanks, presented on the occasion of his 70th
birthday. It is, however, far more than a dutiful collection of tributes.
The 20 essays have a coherent theme: the relationship between word use and
word meaning in the context of dictionary making and analysis of corpus
evidence. These thought-provoking essays deal with major issues in every
aspect of current thinking about the lexicon, some from a theoretical point
of view, others from a more practical point of view.

 

The book includes the last known paper of John Sinclair, which he was
actively working on, for this Festschrift, at the time of his death. Other
contributors include J. Pustejovsky, I. Mel'čuk, K. Church, G. Grefenstette,
A. Kilgarriff, R. Moon, S. Atkins, M. Rundell, J. Green, and many more, as
seen in the table of contents below.

 

Contents:

 

INTRODUCTION

   1. Getting to the Bottom of How Language Works

       Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

PART I: THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND BACKGROUND

   2. Defining the Definiendum

       John Sinclair

   3. Very Large Lexical Entries and the Boundary Between Linguistic and
Knowledge Structures

       Yorick Wilks

   4. Mechanisms of Sense Extension in Verbs

       James Pustejovsky & Anna Rumshisky

   5. The Government Pattern in the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary

       Igor Mel'čuk

   6. The Paradox of Analysis and the Paradox of Synonymy

       David Wiggins

PART II: COMPUTING LEXICAL RELATIONS

   7. More is More

       Kenneth W. Church

   8. Estimating the Number of Concepts

       Gregory Grefenstette

   9. Identifying Adjectives that Predict Noun Classes

       David Guthrie & Louise Guthrie

  10. Statistical Variations of German Support Verb Constructions in Very
Large Corpora

       Alexander Geyken

  11. A Case Study in Word Sketches - Czech Verb vidět 'see'

       Karel Pala & Pavel Rychlý

  12. The Lexical Population of Semantic Types in Hanks's PDEV

       Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub & Lenka Smejkalová

  13. From Pattern Dictionary to Patternbank

       Elisabetta Jezek & Francesca Frontini

PART III: LEXICAL ANALYSIS AND DICTIONARY WRITING

  14. Words that Spring to Mind: Idiom, Allusion, and Convention

       Rosamund Moon

  15. The DANTE Database: Its Contribution to English Lexical Research, and
in Particular to Complementing the FrameNet Data

       Sue Atkins

  16. Semi-Automatic Dictionary Drafting

       Adam Kilgarriff & Pavel Rychlý

  17. Lexicography: Science without Theory?

       Paul Bogaards

  18. The Polish COBUILD and its Influence on Polish Lexicography

       Mirosław Bańko

  19. ARGOT: The Flesh Made Word

       Jonathon Green

  20. Defining Elegance

       Michael Rundell

 

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