Making Sense out of Meaning: An Essay in
β Walter H. Hirtle
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2013
π McGill-Queenβs University Press
π English
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Making Sense out of Meaning: An Essay in Lexical Semantics
β Scribed by Walter Hirtle
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- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
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- 265
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- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I SITUATING THE QUESTION
1 - Language as a Human Phenomenon
2 - Linguists and the Tradition
3 - Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry?
II MAKING WORDS
4 - Coming to Grips with Meaning
5 - How Access βGot Verbedβ
6 - Wording
III LEXEMES OF VERBS
7 - Monosemy and Polysemy
8 - Discerning Different Senses of See
9 - Grammatical (In)Compatibility with Other Verbs
10 - Do, Be, Have
11 - Working Out the Right Sense
IV LEXEMES OF SUBSTANTIVES
12 - Common and Proper
13 - βUnboundedβ and βBoundedβ
14 - Metaphor
V THE GRAMMATICAL CONNECTION
15 - Making Lexemes into Nouns
16 - Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs
VI CONCLUDING REMARKS
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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