This book comprises specially commissioned papers on the subject of the distinction between lexical knowledge and encyclopedic knowledge. This distinction surfaces in many contemporary linguistic theories and has implications for natural language processing (NLP). Contributors to the volume argue both for and against the distinction and debate how it should be drawn.
"The volume is to address one of the most discussed questions concerning
the nature of language... likely to offer a really deep, founded and interesting
discussion"
Jaroslav Peregrin, Czech Academy of Sciences
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)