Lexical concepts, cognitive models and meaning-construction

Figurative Language in a Modern Theory of Meaning Construction: A Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models Approach

Models of lexical meaning

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning

Much of this Handbook is based on ideas from Formal Semantics, in which the meanings of phrases or sentences are represented in terms of set-theoretic models. The key intuition behind Formal Semantics, very roughly, is that the world is full of objects; objects have properties; and relations hold between objects. Set-theoretic models are ideal for capturing this intuition, and have been succces...

Lexical and Derivational Meaning in Vector-Based Models of Relativisation

Sadrzadeh et al (2013) present a compositional distributional analysis of relative clauses in English in terms of the Frobenius algebraic structure of finite dimensional vector spaces. The analysis relies on distinct type assignments and lexical recipes for subject vs object relativisation. The situation for Dutch is different: because of the verb final nature of Dutch, relative clauses are amb...