VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler 2005) is a hierarchical domain- independent, broad-coverage verb lexicon with mappings to several widely-used verb resources, including WordNet (Miller 1990, Fellbaum 1998), ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

As part of a project on discourse parsing, we have built a discourse segmenter based on syntactic and lexical information. A discourse segmenter takes text as input, and produces as output the minimal ...

Recent lexicalist analyses of predicates expressed by syntactically independent elements, raise central questions concerning the domain in which such complex predicates are composed. Should they be ...

The research published in Language Acquisition makes a clear contribution to linguistic theory by increasing our understanding of how language is acquired. The journal focuses on the acquisition of ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...