Lexical Meaning

Informationen zum Autor M. Lynne Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Sussex. Klappentext The ideal introduction for students of semantics, this book provides the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning. Zusammenfassung 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 meanings and syntax and semantics more generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Murphy, M. Lynne Murphy, M. Lynne (University of Sussex) Murphy, Murphy M. Lynne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521677646
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67764-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics