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Part 1: The Basics; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The mental lexicon; 1.2 The nature of the model; 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 matrixes 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; Graphic conventions as first introduced; References; Index.