A Lexical Semantics forRefugee,Asylum SeekerandBoat Peoplein Australian English

Ontological Help for a Lexical Semantics of Basic English

Abstract. This paper began as an exercise to see how lexicon and ontology might combine to help underpin human-agent communication, using Ogdens Basic English as a case study [11]. It became an attempt to clarify, through exemplification in Basic English, the relationships between ontology, lexical semantics, and common sense reasoning, reporting some tentative steps towards an executable seman...

The Lexical Semantics Of English Count And Mass Nouns

The systematic connection between English mass and count nouns has long been known. Those working within lexical semantics have frequently cited such systematic connections as instances which are susceptible of treatment by so-called lexical rules (Leech 1981), lexical inference rules (Ostler and Atkins 1991), or subtype coercion (Pustejovsky 1995). This paper has three aims: to present the pri...

Lexical Semantics

Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics

In this paper I discuss some general problems one is confronted with when trying to analyze the utterance of words within concrete conceptual and contextual settings and to go beyond the aspects of meaning typically investigated by a contrastive analysis of lexemes within the Katz-Fodor tradition of semantics. After emphasizing some important consequences of the traditional view, several phenom...

Competence in lexical semantics

We investigate from the competence standpoint two recent models of lexical semantics, algebraic conceptual representations and continuous vector models. Characterizing what it means for a speaker to be competent in lexical semantics remains perhaps the most significant stumbling block in reconciling the two main threads of semantics, Chomsky’s cognitivism and Montague’s formalism. As Partee (19...