NETZWERKBEZOGENE ORGANISATIONSPRINZIPIEN IM MENTALEN LEXIKON

Organizing principles of the mental lexicon are a long studied and discussed research area in linguistics. On the one hand, the paper intends to analyse and to compare traditional methods used by psycholinguists and cognitive linguists for describing the mental lexicon. In this section the approaches using the analogue of a network for the organisation of the mental lexicon are mentioned in detail. On the other hand, present paper also shows, how new methods borrowed from the now emerging field of network research can be used for a better understanding of the mental lexicon.