An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Lexicon in Linguistic Theory: 1. Introduction; 2. Lexicon and syntax; 3. Lexicon in syntactic frameworks; 4. Lexicon and semantics; 5. Lexicon in semantic frameworks; Part II. Lexical Structures: 6. The structure of a lexical entry; 7. Semantic typing and decomposition; 8. Argument structure; 9. Lexical aspect, tense, and modality; Part III. Lexicon as a System: 10. General architecture of the lexicon; 11. Compositionality in the mapping from the lexicon to syntax; Answers to selected exercises; Online resources; Glossary; References; Subject index; Name index.

James Pustejovsky is the TJX Feldberg Chair in Computer Science at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, where he is also Chair of the Linguistics Program, Chair of the Computational Linguistics M.A. Program, and Director of the Lab for Linguistics and Computation. His research interests include semantics and the lexicon, temporal and spatial reasoning, multimodal communication, language-vision interaction, linguistic annotation, linguistic tool support for the digital humanities, and machine learning.