M. Lynne Murphy

Lexical Meaning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, this book provides the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780521860314
• ISBN-10: 0521860318
• Artikelnr.: 31893344

Autorenporträt

M. Lynne Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.