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Lexical Meaning

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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. It provides a balanced overview of the main theoretical approaches, along with a lucid explanation of their relative strengths and weaknesses. After covering the main topics in lexical meaning, such as polysemy and sense relations, the textbook surveys the types of meanings represented by different word classes. It explains abstract concepts in clear language, using a wide range of examples, and includes linguistic puzzles in each chapter to encourage the student to practise using the concepts. 'Adopt-a-Word' exercises give students the chance to research a particular word, building a portfolio of specialist work on a single word.

Author Biography:

M. Lynne Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Sussex.
Release date Australia
October 28th, 2010
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
11 Tables, black and white; 30 Line drawings, black and white
Pages
276
Dimensions
180x253x17
ISBN-13
9780521860314
Product ID
8048962

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