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Theories of Lexical Semantics (Oxford Linguistics)

By Dirk Geeraerts

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0198700318, 9780198700319, 019870030X, 9780198700302
LCC
P325 .G42 2009
Google Books ID
AHU_2mFy8iEC
Open Library ID
OL10141530M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1735390 bytes)
Series
Oxford Linguistics
Pages
363\363
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and the dominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well beyond a mere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution.

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