2008

Volume 20 – Issue 1 – 2008

Guest editor Alessandro Lenci
From context to meaning: Distributional models of lexicon in linguistics and cognitive science

Alessandro Lenci
Distributional semantics in linguistic and cognitive research

Magnus Sahlgren
The distributional hypothesis

Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci
Concepts and properties in word Spaces

Sabine Schulte im Walde, Alissa Melinger
An in-depth look into the co-occurrence distribution of semantic associates

errata corrige

Luca Onnis, Thomas A. Farmer, Marco Baroni, Morten H. Christiansen, Michael J. Spivey
Generalizable distributional regularities aid fluent language processing: The case of semantic valence tendencies

Afsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson
A Distributional Account of the Semantics of Multiword Expressions

James Pustejovsky, Elisabetta Jezek
Semantic Coercion in Language: Beyond Distributional Analysis

Anna Rumshisky
Resolving polysemy in verbs: Contextualized distribution alapproach to argument semantics

Discussion paper

Arthur M. Glenberg, Sarita Mehta
Constraint on covariation: It’s not meaning

Comments on Glenberg and Mehta by:
Magnus Sahlgren
Alessandro Lenci
Luca Onnis, Michael J. Spivey, Thomas A. Farmer


Volume 20 – Issue 2 – 2008

Chiara Finocchiaro, Bradford Z. Mahon & Alfonso Caramazza
Gender agreement and multiple referents

Francesca Volpato
Clitic pronouns and past participle agreement in Italian in three hearing impaired bilinguals Italian/LIS

Articles review

Chiara Gianollo
Historical Syntax and the Generative Paradigm. A review article of Lightfoot David 2006, How New Languages Emerge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Roberts Ian 2007, Diachronic Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Martin Maiden
Effects of word-formation processes in Italian. Reflections on Grossmann Maria and Franz Rainer (eds.) 2004. La formazione delle parole in italiano. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Books received