Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Semantic features and primes -- 2. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs -- 3. Thematic roles -- 4. Lexical Conceptual Structure -- 5. Idioms and collocations -- 6. Sense relations -- 7. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning -- 8. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview -- 9. Semantic underspecification -- 10. Mismatches and coercion -- 11. Metaphors and metonymies -- 12. Adjectives -- 13. Comparison constructions -- 14. Adverbs and adverbials -- 15, Adverbial clauses -- 16. Secondary predicates -- Index