An outline of type-theoretical approaches to lexical semantics

Abstract

We take the opportunity of the publication of some of the papers of the ESSLLI workshop TYTLES (TYpes Theory and LExical Semantics, ESSLLI 2015, Barcelona) to provide an overview of the possibilities that type theory offer to model lexical semantics, especially the type theoretical frameworks that properly model compositional semantics.

Keywords

• lexical semantics
• compositional semantics
• type theory