The Language of Word Meaning Book

1. Preface James Pustejovsky;
2. Introduction: word meaning and creativity Pierrette Bouillon and Federica Busa;

Part I. Linguistic Creativity and the Lexicon:
3. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon;
4. Chomsky on the creative aspect of language use and its implications for lexical semantic studies James McGilvray;
5. The emptiness of the lexicon: critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's 'The Generative Lexicon' Jerry A. Fodor and Ernie Lepore;
6. Generativity and explanation in semantics: a reply to Fodor and Lepore James Pustejovsky;
7. The 'Fodor'-FODOR fallacy bites back Yorick Wilks;

Part II. The Syntax of Word Meaning:
8. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon;
9. Type construction and the logic of concepts James Pustejovsky;
10. Underspecification, context selection and generativity Jacques Jayez;
11. Qualia and the structuring of verb meaning Pierrette Bouillon and Federica Busa;
12. Sense variation and lexical semantics generative operations Patrick Saint-Dizier;
13. Individuation by partitive constructions in Spanish Salvador Climent;
14. Event co-reference in causal discourses Laurence Danlos;

Part III. Interfacing the Lexicon:
15. Introduction Federica Busa and Pierrette Bouillon;
16. Metaphor, creative understanding and the generative lexicon Julius M. Moravcsik;
17. Metaphor in discourse Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides;
18. Syntax and metonymy Jerry Hobbs;
19. Generative lexicon meets corpus data: the case of non-standard word uses Adam Kilgarriff;

Part IV. Building Resources:
20. Introduction Federica Busa and PierretteBouillon;
21. Generative lexicon and the SIMPLE model: developing semantic resources for NLP Federica Busa, Nicoletta Calzolari and Alessando Lenci;
22. Lexicography informs lexical semantics: the SIMPLE experience Nilda Ruimy, Elisabetta Gola and Monica Monachini;
23. Condensed meaning in EuroWordNet Piek Vossen.