Frames and Concept Types

Part I. Introduction to Frames and Concept Types

1. General Introduction
Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald, Wiebke Petersen

2. Evidence for Frames from Human Language
Sebastian Löbner

3. From Features via Frames to Spaces: Modeling Scientific Conceptual Change Without Incommensurability or Aprioricity
Frank Zenker

Part II. Frame Analysis of Changes in Scientific Concepts

4. Reconstructing Scientific Theory Change by Means of Frames
Gerhard Schurz, Ioannis Votsis

5. Interests in Conceptual Changes: A Frame Analysis
Xiang Chen

Part III. Event Frames and Lexical Decomposition

6. FrameNet, Frame Structure, and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Rainer Osswald, Robert D. Valin

7. The Deep Lexical Semantics of Event Words
Jerry R. Hobbs, Niloofar Montazeri

Part IV. Properties, Frame Attributes and Adjectives

8. Distinguishing Properties and Relations in the Denotation of Adjectives: An Empirical Investigation
Matthias Hartung, Anette Frank

9. Why Chocolate Eggs Can Taste Old but Not Oval: A Frame-Theoretic Analysis of Inferential Evidentials
Wiebke Petersen, Thomas Gamerschlag

Part V. Frames in Concept Composition

10. A Frame Approach to Metonymical Processes in Some Common Types of German Word Formation
Daniel Schulzek

11. Concept Composition in Frames: Focusing on Genitive Constructions
Wiebke Petersen, Tanja Osswald

Part VI. Nominal Concept Types and Determination

12. Definitely Not Possessed? Possessive Suffixes with Definiteness Marking Function
Doris Gerland

13. Definite Article Asymmetries and Concept Types: Semantic and Pragmatic Uniqueness
Albert Ortmann

14. The Indefiniteness of Definiteness
Barbara Abbott

15. Nominal Concept Types in German Fictional Texts
Christian Horn, Nicolas Kimm

Avainsanat: Linguistics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language