There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical words, ie, words that contribute
with content to the meaning of sentences. This debate has coincided with a renewal in the …

A central debate in the literature on grammatical number systems and nominal semantics is
whether the countable/noncountable contrast is ontologically based or ultimately arbitrary …

Systematic (or regular) polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon in which a noun has
several distinct but related meanings whereby the same relation holds between the …

There are competing views on the on-line processing of polysemous words such as book,
which have distinct but semantically related senses (as in bound book vs. scary book) …

Polysemy has only recently entered the debate on semantic minimalism and contextualism.
This is surprising considering that the key linguistic examples discussed in the debate, such …

The count/mass distinction is a widely discussed topic across languages and linguistic
theories have covered a great part of peculiarities which appear in relation to this phe …

This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics,
describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it …

„The book is divided into two main parts: theoretical and analytical. In the theoretical part,
there are three main chapters. In the first one, we make an overview of the major views on …

In an eye-tracking during reading experiment we investigated the processing of ambiguous
Polish imperfective verbs in contexts with disambiguating ('frequently'and 'yesterday') and …

This two-part paper bridges insights from psycholinguistics and from theoretical and
computational lexicography to develop a fine-grained classification of polysemy organized …