In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the ...

Lexical Semantics is about the meaning of words. Although obviously a central concern of linguistics, the semantic behaviour of words has been unduly ...

Sep 18, 1986 ... Lexical Semantics is about the meaning of words. Although obviously a central concern of linguistics, the semantic behaviour of words has ...

Oct 8, 2001 ... This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.

Structural approach to vocabulary building, filled with examples from literature, business, & colloquial speech. Synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms.

Jun 19, 2020 ... 201 pages : 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) Includes indexes pt. 1: Historical semantics -- Etymology -- Semantic ...

Lexical ambiguity is one of the most intractable problems facing language processing studies and, not surprisingly, it is at the core of research in lexical ...

Lexical Semantics · Other editions - View all · Bibliographic information. Title, Lexical Semantics Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.