Browsing School of Languages & Literatures by Subject "Lexical semantics"

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Lexical decomposition meets conceptual atomism

Acquaviva, Paolo ; Panagiotidis, Phoevos (Società Editrice il Mulino, 2012-07)

Asking what can be a substantive word in natural language is closely related to asking what can be a lexical concept. However, studies on lexical concepts in cognitive psychology, philosophy and linguistics have little ...
Roots, categories, and nominal concepts

Acquaviva, Paolo (Il Mulino, 2009-01)

This paper investigates what is specifically nominal in lexical semantics and how it relates to nouns as morphosyntactic objects. Nouns are argued to refer primarily to kind-level sorts, which define categories of entities ...