Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives / / ed. by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner.

Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptua...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Mouton Reader
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 571 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Semantic features and primes
  • 2. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs
  • 3. Thematic roles
  • 4. Lexical Conceptual Structure
  • 5. Idioms and collocations
  • 6. Sense relations
  • 7. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning
  • 8. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview
  • 9. Semantic underspecification
  • 10. Mismatches and coercion
  • 11. Metaphors and metonymies
  • 12. Adjectives
  • 13. Comparison constructions
  • 14. Adverbs and adverbials
  • 15, Adverbial clauses
  • 16. Secondary predicates
  • Index