Contrastive Lexical Semantics.

Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguis...

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Other Authors: Weigand, Edda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 171.
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTRASTIVE LEXICAL SEMANTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; THE LEXICAL ITEM; 1. Introduction; 2. Meaning; 3. Reversal; 4. Theory Adjustment; I. Language text is not adequately modelled as a sequence of items, each in an environment of other items.; II. Ambiguity in a text is created by the method of observation, and not the structure of the text.; III. The form of a linguistic unit and its meaning are two perspectives on the same event.; 5. The Axes of Patterning; 6. Example; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.