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Lexical meaning /

"The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The book explores the relationship between word...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, M. Lynne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Meaning and the lexicon. 1. The lexicon
  • some preliminaries
  • 2. What do we mean by meaning?
  • 3. Components and prototypes
  • 4. Modern componential approaches
  • and some alternatives
  • Part II. Relations among words and senses. 5. Meaning variation : polysemy, homonymy and vagueness
  • 6. Lexical and semantic relations
  • Part III. Word classes and semantic types. 7. Ontological categories and word classes
  • 8. Nouns and countability
  • 9. Predication : verbs, events, and states
  • 10. Verbs and time
  • 11. Adjectives and properties.