| Titre | La sémantique lexicale est d'abord inférentielle | |
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| Auteur | D. Kayser | |
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Revue | Langue française |
| Numéro | no 113, février 1997 Aux sources de la polysémie nominale, sous la direction de Pierre Cadiot et Benoît Habert | |
| Page | 92-106 | |
| Résumé anglais |
La sémantique lexicale est d'abord inférentielle Lexical Semantics is concerned with the meaning of words ; but how to express a meaning ? In words ? With « atoms of meaning » ? With logical predicates ? With mathematical functions ? We discuss the weaknesses of these solutions, try to identify their causes and conclude that the problem is basically ill-defined. Actually, what matters are the inferences which are warranted by the use of a word in its context ; the existence of a referent in some universe of discourse is merely a possible by-product of these inferences. We finally explain that the inferential behaviour obeys general principles that can be represented in a logic, provided it is a non-monotonic one. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lfr_0023-8368_1997_num_113_1_5372 |
