Lexical Semantics is about the meaning of words. Although obviously a central concern of linguistics, the semantic behaviour of words has been unduly neglected in the current literature, which has tended to emphasize sentential semantics and its relation to formal systems of logic. In this textbook
Lexical semantics
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 323
- Series
- Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
- Category
- Library
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