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The Emptiness of the Lexicon: Reflections on James Pustejovsky's The Generative Lexicon
Jerry A. Fodor,Ernie Lepore +1 more
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The authors consider Pustejovsky's account of the semantic lexicon and reject his argument that the complexity of lexical entries is required to account for lexical generativity, and defend lexical atomism.Abstract:
We consider Pustejovsky's account of the semantic lexicon. We discuss and reject his argument that the complexity of lexical entries is required to account for lexical generativity. Finally, we defend a sort of lexical atomism: though, strictly speaking, we concede that lexical entries are typically complex, still we claim that their complexity does not jeopardize either the thesis that lexical meaning is atomistic or the identification of lexical meaning with denotation.read more
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The generative lexicon
TL;DR: It is argued that lexical decomposition is possible if it is performed generatively and a theory of lexical inheritance is outlined, which provides the necessary principles of global organization for the lexicon, enabling us to fully integrate the authors' natural language lexicon into a conceptual whole.
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The structure of a semantic theory
Jerrold J. Katz,Jerry A. Fodor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of characterizing the form of semantic theories by describing the structure of a semantic theory of English has been investigated, and it has been shown that the results can be applied to semantic theories of languages unrelated to English and suggest how to proceed with the construction of such theories.
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Holism: A Shopper's Guide
Jerry A. Fodor,Ernest Lepore +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Geography of The Issues is presented, with a focus on confirmation holism and meaning holism in the context of state space semantics, and a brief summary of the issues it addresses.