Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives

✍ Scribed by Claudia Maienborn (editor); Klaus von Heusinger (editor); Paul Portner (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 578
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.

state of the art in linguistic semantics
great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field
for the first time available as paperbacks

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Semantic features and primes
2. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs
3. Thematic roles
4. Lexical Conceptual Structure
5. Idioms and collocations
6. Sense relations
7. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning
8. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview
9. Semantic underspecification
10. Mismatches and coercion
11. Metaphors and metonymies
12. Adjectives
13. Comparison constructions
14. Adverbs and adverbials
15, Adverbial clauses
16. Secondary predicates
Index

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