This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

This thesis addresses the lexical and psycholinguistic properties of copredication. In
particular, it explores its acceptability, frequency, crosslinguistic and electrophysiological …

This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the
general theoretical and architectural issues that nominalizations have raised since the …

This paper proposes a new diagnostic for the detection of stative sub-events in the
decomposition of verbal predicates. The diagnostic is based on a certain type of …

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex
nominals since the publication of Chomsky's' Remarks on Nominalization'in 1970. In the last …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

Manner/result polysemy describes a phenomenon where a single root can encode both
manner and result meaning components of an eventive verbal predicate. It therefore poses a …

We argue for a split semantics of German predicative participle constructions, depending on
whether or not the formation of the participle involves prefixation with the dedicated …

Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially
identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and …

Lexical semantics is, in a nutshell, the study of the meaning of words (and morphemes),
especially in terms of how they relate to other components of language, such as the syntax …