Contents -- Part 1 The Basics -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The mental lexicon -- 1.2 The nature of the model -- 2 Some Sample Word Templates -- 2.1 A noun template -- 2.2 Nouns versus verbs -- 2.3 Other parts of speech -- 2.4 A 'derived' word -- 3 The Production and Comprehension of Simple Sentences -- 4 Expansion to a Complex Sentence -- 4.1 Some new word types -- 4.2 Production of a complex sentence - and an inference -- 5 Further Dimensions of the Model -- 5.1 Relating event structures -- 5.2 Nominalizations and abstract nouns -- 5.3 Some loose ends -- Summary of Part 1 -- Part 2 Applications -- 6 Semantic Fields and Lexical Categories -- 7 Compositionality -- 7.1 Nominal composition -- 7.2 Verbal decomposition -- 7.3 More on causal derivation -- 7.4 Complex word meaning: a test case for compositionality -- 8 Constructions -- 9 Polysemy -- 9.1 Polysemy and context -- 9.2 An excursion into metaphor and metonymy -- 10 Some Further Questions of qualia -- 11 Extensions to Languages of Different Morphological Type -- Summary of Part 2 -- Part 3 Cognitive Justification of the Model -- 12 The Interfacing of Grammar and Lexicon -- 12.1 Grammar templates -- 12.2 The realization of grammatical and semantic features by call trees -- 12.3 How call trees and combination matrices might function -- 13 The Neural Representation of Context -- 14 Acquisition -- 15 Prospective Conclusions -- 15.1 The justification for separating affordance levels -- 15.2 Potential (dis)confirmation of the model -- Appendix 1: The Relationship to Burnod's Neurological Model -- Appendix 2: Paradigmatic Features of English Words -- Appendix 3: Sample Derivations -- List of Templates and Graphic Conventions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.