Making sense out of meaning an essay in lexical semantics
Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [England] ; Ithaca [New York] :
McGill-Queen's University Press
[2013]
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| Edición: | [CEL version] |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30841525*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I Situating the Question. Language as a Human Phenomenon
- Linguists and the Tradition
- Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry?
- II Making Words. Coming to Grips with Meaning
- How Access "Got Verbed"
- Wording.
- III Lexemes of verbs. Monosemy and Polysemy
- Discerning Different Senses of See
- Grammatical (In)compatibility with Other Verbs
- Do, Be, Have
- Working Out the Right Sense.
- IV Lexemes of Substantives. Common and Proper
- 'Unbounded' and 'Bounded'
- Metaphor.
- V The Grammatical Connection. Making Lexemes into Nouns
- Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs.
- VI Concluding Remarks
- Conclusion
- GLossary.
