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Chapter 7 Lexical Semantics
180 Copyright 2019, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is 7 DOI: Semantics is concerned with inherent aspects of word meaning and the semantic relations be-tween words, as well as the ways in which word meaning is related to syntactic structure. This Chapter provides an introduction to some of the main themes in Lexical semantic research, including the nature of the mental lexicon, Lexical relations, and the decomposition of words into grammatically relevant semantic features.
182 Lexical Semantics (1) The morning star is the evening star. (2) Venus is Venus. The distinction between reference and sense has led to two distinct research traditions in semantics. Referential (denotational) theories of meaning focus on how words manage to …
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