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The study of lexical semantics concerns: the classification and decomposition of lexical items. the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure cross-linguistically. the relationship of lexical meaning to sentence meaning and syntax.
Lexical 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
Lexical semantics is the study of word meaning. The following first presents an overview of the main phenomena studied in lexical semantics and then charts the different theoretical traditions that have contributed to the development of the field.
Semantics è focuses mapping of words to concepts. a single word or chain that forms the basic elements of a lexicon (vocabulary). E.g., light", "take care of", "by-the-way“, etc. What is Lexical.
Lexical Semantics Jargon. Lexeme: Pairing of a particular form (orthographic or phonological) with its meaning. For example, the lexeme BANK (noun) consists of bank and banks, but not banker. BANKER is a lexeme of its own! Lexicon: Finite list of lexemes Lemma: The grammatical form that is used to represent. a lexeme.
1. Extracting Structure from Patterns: An Example of Lexical Semantics Research. Let’s begin by considering a miniature example of how linguists use grammatical distributions of words as evidence for the presence of complex semantic structure in the words. (Parts of the following example come from Levin, English Verb Classes.)
We can use the word lexeme to mean a pairing of a particular form (orthographic or phonological) with its meaning, and a lexicon is a finite list of lexemes. For the pur-poses of lexical semantics, particularly for dictionaries and thesauruses, we represent a lexeme by a lemma.
