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absolute clause 537 comparatives 254, 394, 397, 402, 407,


adjective 221, 222, 381–411, 417–419 415–417, 421–425, 430, 435–438,
adjunct clause 515, 516, 533, 535, 539 441–443, 457–461, 464, 467, 470
adverbial 54, 218, 334–337, 345, 407–411, comparison 180, 251–255, 261–267, 351–353,
477–510, 515, 516, 521, 550 362, 368, 384, 394–406, 415–472, 501
– behaviour of certain adjectives 407–411 complex predicates 141, 194, 543, 561, 565
– clauses 479, 515–539 compositionality 23, 38, 65, 81, 152–167, 197,
adverb 345, 477–510 241, 283, 296, 297, 321, 322, 329, 343,
ambiguity 236–252, 268, 273–283, 302, 388, 501–509, 544
303, 385, 392, 409, 439 conceptual metaphor 23, 158, 159, 351–356,
– and negation 275, 302, 439 363–373
– and semantic theory 236, 240, 243–247, conceptual structure 2, 3, 10, 12, 24–26, 37,
268 38, 59–67, 70, 74–76, 86, 112, 115,
antonymy 172, 174, 179–181, 186, 192, 201, 126–145, 363–374, 509
222, 429, 430 concessive clause 515, 532, 533
argument contextualism and interest relativity 256,
– linking 77, 305 262–268
– realization 67, 68, 99, 100, 103–105, co-occurence 152–154, 168, 367, 403
108–113, 117–122, 126, 129, 135,
138–141, 145, 194 degree
– structure 8–11, 19, 20, 30, 61–76, 82–90, – adverbial 486, 488, 506
112, 121, 127–134, 142, 143, 194, 321, – operators and the than-clause 444–451
332, 336–339, 346, 383, 385 – semantics 416, 417, 449, 465–471
aspect shift 330, 341 degrees, scales and adjective meanings 
aspectual 417–419
– adverbials 56–59, 72, 334, 335, 345 denominal verbs 83, 86, 143, 144
– coercion and rhetorical structure 338, 339 depictive predication 543–547, 553–563
– mismatches 332, 333, 337–339 diachronic change 165, 191
attribution 387, 393 Distributed Morphology 47, 86–91
attributive and predicative adjectives 381, dossiers 1, 29, 32–34, 39–42, 509
386–393 duality 201–228, 232, 233
– groups 201, 202, 210–228, 232
causal clause 515, 526–533 – square 212, 213, 224, 227, 233
characteristics of adjectives 381–385, – tests 208, 216
408, 409 enriched type theories 321–325
circumstantial predication 543–547, 560–563 epistemic uncertainty 256, 259
coercion 72, 195, 247, 248, 281, 312–346, 488 equatives 415, 425, 426
cognitive and conceptual accounts 353, event structure 47, 48, 59–60, 66, 69–73, 77,
363–373 112–116, 126, 127, 131–136, 139–145, 194,
cognitive semantics 199, 350, 351, 354, 325, 543, 561–565
363, 374 expressivity and compactness 283, 297–299
collocation 152–157, 163, 168, 183–189, 198,
199, 366 features and types 7–10
– vs. collocations 152–155 figurative language 355–363

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Generative Semantics 28, 48–56, 60, 61, 66, measure phrases 383, 395, 398, 401, 418,
81, 86, 139, 142, 192 433–435, 439, 460–468
gradability 384, 390, 393, 395, 407 mental-attitude adverbial 486, 487, 490, 499
mental structure 1, 25, 74, 371
homogeneous ambiguities 274, 277–283, metaphor 23, 40–43, 116, 158, 159, 163, 174,
299, 301 184, 185, 189, 190, 248, 281, 350–374
homonymy and polysemy 187–190, 247, 280 – traditional approaches to 352–354
hyponymy 172–179, 182, 186, 187, 192 metonymy 190, 248, 281, 350–355, 363,
373–376
idiomaticity 154, 164
mismatches 312–346
idioms 100, 102, 152–168, 183, 355, 366,
modifier 61–67, 74, 132, 174, 184, 241,
369, 370
279–282, 306, 327, 381–385, 390–400,
– as constructions 159, 164, 165
403–407, 410, 430, 479, 480–488,
– in the mental lexicon 152, 166–168
496–501, 504, 529, 561
idiom-specific lexemes 156
Montague Semantics 4, 47, 48, 56–59, 70, 194
indeterminacy 237, 238, 243, 255, 503–506
multiplying syntactic structures 299–301
inferences 25, 33, 62, 63, 107, 122, 194,
multi-word units 152–155, 168
197, 329, 351, 368, 370, 373, 390,
435, 436
Natural Semantic Metalanguage 47, 48, 79–81
instrumental clause 533, 534
negation relation 205–210, 222, 233
internal and external negation 203–205,
non-compositionality 152–157, 160
215, 217
intersective and non-intersective
paradigmatic relations (see also sense relations)
adjectives 381, 388–393, 407, 498
173–176, 183, 186, 187, 199
lexical participial clause 535–537
– decomposition 26, 28, 31, 42, 47–66, 69, part-whole relations 75, 174, 182, 406
70, 73–75, 78, 79, 91, 104, 114–117, 193 perfective/imperfective contrast in Romance 
– entailments 60, 119 341–345
– properties of idioms 153–157 phase quantification 201, 202, 221, 228–233
– semantics 54, 59, 66, 70, 99, 141, 174, 187, Phonetic Form 2, 3
190, 247, 481, 482 phrasal comparatives 423–425, 472
– variation 158, 161–168 phrasal lexical items 154
Lexical Conceptual Structure 59, 66, 67, 70, positive and antonyms 180, 222, 230, 396,
86, 112, 115, 126, 199 403, 428–431
Lexical Decomposition Grammar 48, 69, pragmatic accounts of metaphor 352, 354–361
73–75, 78 predicate decomposition 47, 48, 63, 126–132,
Lexical Relational Structures 47, 48, 81–85, 135, 136, 139–142, 145
127, 142 predication 66–70, 108, 201–207, 213–217,
locative adverbials 256, 478, 494, 501–504, 515 221, 223–228, 233, 254, 387, 393,
Logical Form 2, 3, 28, 54, 243, 286, 295, 481–484, 489, 543–549, 552–560,
300–306, 416, 420, 421, 424, 426, 564–566
444, 489, 490, 499 primes and universals 38–43
primitive predicates 54, 66, 128, 132, 135–138
manner adverbials 478, 482, 486–488, 493, primitive thematic roles 64, 109–111
498, 499, 506–509, 515 psycholinguistic approaches to figurative
meaning postulates and semantic atomism language 361–363
196–198 purpose clause 121, 530–532

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quantification 30, 52, 81, 82, 201–203, supervaluations 256–259, 262


213–223, 226–233, 275, 289–293, 303, synonymy 172, 174, 177–179, 186, 192
311, 411, 415, 427, 454, 468, 516–523, 538 syntagmatic relations (see also sense relations)
172, 183, 186, 187, 194, 199
relative and absolute adjectives 381, 389, syntax-semantics interface 63, 69, 99, 105,
393–406, 430 241, 243, 273, 283, 287, 299–302,
relevance theory 178, 350, 352, 355–357, 360, 306–309, 415, 472, 478, 492–495
361, 372–374 systematic/idiosyncratic features 1, 17,
resultative 54, 58, 78, 113, 140, 141, 165, 490, 28–33, 39, 41
491, 507, 543–555, 558–560, 563–565
– predication 547–559, 564 temporal clause 516–524, 539
result clause 525–527 testing for ambiguity 242
Romance simple present 341 thematic hierarchies 64, 73, 99–101, 111–121,
root vs. event structure 126, 133–136, 145 142
thematic relation 100, 114, 118, 135,
secondary predicates 478, 490, 491, 543–548, 137, 549
554, 557–566 thematic role(s) 1, 18, 60, 64, 66, 72, 73, 85,
selectional restriction 53, 55, 155, 156, 172 99–122, 135, 142, 312, 313, 489, 549
semantic – and aspectual phenomena 64, 72, 108,
– classes of adjectives 381–411 – and plurality 100, 108
– form 1, 3, 10, 36, 74–77, 127, 306 – in model-theoretic semantics 60, 101–105,
– theory 54–60, 63–69, 99, 100, 173, 192, 206, 115, 122
236–240, 243, 244, 255, 268, 321, 322, – systems 103, 109–122
472, 501, 543, 546, 565 – uniqueness 104–110, 113–117
– types 174, 194, 251, 322, 381, 382, Two-level Semantics 73–79, 86, 280
386–391, 394, 417 type coercion 195, 321–329, 337, 345, 346
– underspecification 116, 247, 272–314, – in comprehension 329, 330
335, 345 type mismatch 321–325, 328, 345, 462
sense exclusion/inclusion 174, 175, 181
sense relations 172–174, 177, 186, 187, underspecification 116, 188, 247, 272–275,
190–198, 204, 247 279–286, 289–291, 294–299, 302–310,
– and word meaning 172–174, 177, 190–192, 330–336, 346, 352, 505
198 – in Natural Langugage Processing 303–305
– basic 173, 174 underspecified representation 272, 282–284,
– paradigmatic 172–176, 179, 182, 183, 186, 287, 289, 292–295, 304, 306, 309–311
187, 192–199 universals 38, 69
– syntagmatic 174, 183, 195, 196
small clause 113, 537, 538, 543, 546–554, 565 vagueness 177, 188, 236–240, 252–263,
speaker-oriented adverbial 483, 484, 493 266–268, 273, 274, 282, 352, 381–387,
Square of Oppositions 202, 223–225, 227, 233 393–396, 465
subevents 67, 70–73, 77, 104, 109, 115, 126, verb phrase idioms 152–154
139–141, 536, 559 veridicality 481–483, 524, 528
subeventual analysis 126, 139, 141
subject-oriented adverbial 482–486, 493 word sense 173
subnegation 208–213, 222, 233 world knowledge 13, 74, 121, 136, 174, 183,
superlatives 254, 409, 415, 425–427, 442, 465 196, 325, 505

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