A Way with Words: Recent Advances in Lexical Theory and Analysis A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks Editor: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver Publisher: Menha Publishers (http://menhapublishers.com/) Summary: This landmark publication is a Festschrift for the famous corpus linguist and lexicographer Patrick Hanks, presented on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It is, however, far more than a dutiful collection of tributes. The 20 essays have a coherent theme: the relationship between word use and word meaning in the context of dictionary making and analysis of corpus evidence. These thought-provoking essays deal with major issues in every aspect of current thinking about the lexicon, some from a theoretical point of view, others from a more practical point of view. The book includes the last known paper of John Sinclair, which he was actively working on, for this Festschrift, at the time of his death. Other contributors include J. Pustejovsky, I. Mel'čuk, K. Church, G. Grefenstette, A. Kilgarriff, R. Moon, S. Atkins, M. Rundell, J. Green, and many more, as seen in the table of contents below. Contents: INTRODUCTION 1. Getting to the Bottom of How Language Works Gilles-Maurice de Schryver PART I: THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND BACKGROUND 2. Defining the Definiendum John Sinclair 3. Very Large Lexical Entries and the Boundary Between Linguistic and Knowledge Structures Yorick Wilks 4. Mechanisms of Sense Extension in Verbs James Pustejovsky & Anna Rumshisky 5. The Government Pattern in the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary Igor Mel'čuk 6. The Paradox of Analysis and the Paradox of Synonymy David Wiggins PART II: COMPUTING LEXICAL RELATIONS 7. More is More Kenneth W. Church 8. Estimating the Number of Concepts Gregory Grefenstette 9. Identifying Adjectives that Predict Noun Classes David Guthrie & Louise Guthrie 10. Statistical Variations of German Support Verb Constructions in Very Large Corpora Alexander Geyken 11. A Case Study in Word Sketches - Czech Verb vidět 'see' Karel Pala & Pavel Rychlý 12. The Lexical Population of Semantic Types in Hanks's PDEV Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub & Lenka Smejkalová 13. From Pattern Dictionary to Patternbank Elisabetta Jezek & Francesca Frontini PART III: LEXICAL ANALYSIS AND DICTIONARY WRITING 14. Words that Spring to Mind: Idiom, Allusion, and Convention Rosamund Moon 15. The DANTE Database: Its Contribution to English Lexical Research, and in Particular to Complementing the FrameNet Data Sue Atkins 16. Semi-Automatic Dictionary Drafting Adam Kilgarriff & Pavel Rychlý 17. Lexicography: Science without Theory? Paul Bogaards 18. The Polish COBUILD and its Influence on Polish Lexicography Mirosław Bańko 19. ARGOT: The Flesh Made Word Jonathon Green 20. Defining Elegance Michael Rundell For more information, including orders, please see http://menhapublishers.com/