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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics |
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Oxford textbooks in linguistics.
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Cover; The Lexicon: An Introduction; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the English edition; Typographic conventions; Abbreviations; 1: Basic notions; 1.1. Lexicon and dictionary; 1.2. Lexicon and semantics; 1.2.1. Concepts and lexicalization; 1.2.2. Lexicalization patterns; 1.3. Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning; 1.3.1. Content words and function words; 1.3.2. Types of grammatical meanings; 1.4. The notion word; 1.4.1. Counting the words of a language; 1.4.2. Word types; 1.4.3. Word typology; Further reading; 2: Lexical information; 2.1. Types of lexical information |
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2.2. Lexical information and encyclopedic knowledgeFurther reading; 3: The meaning of words; 3.1. What, exactly, do words mean?; 3.2. Ambiguity and polysemy of words; 3.3. Theories on the nature of meaning; 3.4. Building meaning syntagmatically; 3.5. Systems of word meaning representation; Further reading; 4: The global structure of the lexicon; 4.1. Word classes; 4.2. Morphological, syntactic, and semantic classes; 4.3. Relationships between word classes and meaning; 4.4. Word subclasses; 4.4.1. Verb classes; 4.4.1.1. Transitivity and intransitivity; 4.4.1.2. Valency structure |
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4.4.1.3. Aktionsart4.4.1.4. The root; 4.4.2. Noun classes; 4.4.2.1. Entity nouns; 4.4.2.2. Event nouns; 4.5. Word class systems across languages; Further reading; 5: Paradigmatic structures in the lexicon; 5.1. What counts as a paradigmatic relation?; 5.2. Kinds of paradigmatic relations among words; 5.3. Relations of inclusion: hyperonymy/hyponymy; meronymy/holonymy; 5.4. Relations of identity: synonymy, near-synonymy; 5.5. Relations of opposition: antonymy, complementarity, converse terms; 5.6. Other relations: cause, purpose, temporal entailment; 5.7. Lexical configurations |
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Further reading6: Syntagmatic structures in the lexicon; 6.1. What is a syntagmatic relation?; 6.2. Syntagmatic relations: role, attribution, and manner; 6.3. Impossible word combinations: why?; 6.3.1. Selectional restrictions and lexical solidarities; 6.3.2. Types of constraints on word combinations; 6.3.2.1. Context fitting; 6.3.2.2. Redundancy; 6.4. Types of word combinations; 6.4.1. Free combinations; 6.4.2. Restricted combinations; 6.4.3. Collocations; 6.4.3.1. Salience vs. frequency; 6.4.4. Light verb constructions; 6.4.5. Other constructions; 6.4.6. Idiomatic expressions |
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6.5. Impact of combinatory phenomena on the lexiconFurther reading; Concluding observations; References; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lexicology.
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Lexicology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191667114 |
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0191667110 |
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