The Lexicon

Elisabetta Je%zek is an associate professor at the University of Pavia, where she has taught syntax and semantics and applied linguistics since 2001. Her research interests include lexical semantics, verb classification, theory of argument structure, event structure in syntax and semantics, lexicon/ontology interplay, word class systems, and computational lexicography. She has edited a number of major works in lexicography and published contributions focusing on the interplay between corpus analysis, research methodology, and linguistic theory.

• Preface to the English edition ; Typographic conventions ; Abbreviations ; 1. Basic notions ; 2. Lexical information ; 3. The meaning of words ; 4. The global structure of the lexicon ; 5. Paradigmatic structures in the lexicon ; 6. Syntagmatic structures in the lexicon ; Concluding observations ; References ; Index

What any reader cannot fail to appreciate though, whether they be a layperson or a specialist, is the clarity of the lines of reasoning, which are all the easier to follow as main didactic tools are provided besides the lucid definitions given to words in bold type ... a really interesting work in a field which has undergone radical changes in the past few years and cannot fail to attract an increasingly higher number of researchers, who now have new methods at their disposal