The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based network models. The book is of interest to researchers and advanced students in all fields of linguistics and in the cognitive sciences.

Contents:

Introduction: What the theory of the lexicon is about Dieter Wunderlich

Concepts of the lexicon in theoretical linguistics Martin Neef and Heinz Vater

Towards a structural typology of verb classes Dieter Wunderlich

From rags to riches. Nominal linking in contrast to verbal linking Barbara Stiebels

A theory of lexical event structure and its cognitive motivation Stefan Engelberg

Ontology and diachrony of polysynthesis Johanna Mattissen

Linguistic perspectives on morphological processing Harald Clahsen

The representation of inflectional morphology in the mental lexicon: An overview on psycho- and neurolinguistic methods and results Martina Penke

Inheritance-based models of the lexicon James Kilbury, Wiebke Petersen and Christof Rumpf

Appendix 1: List of subprojects in the SFB

Appendix 2: List of major publications from SFB 282