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| List of figures | |
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| Preface: using this book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Typographical conventions | |
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| Meaning and the lexicon | |
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| The lexicon - some preliminaries | |
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| Overview | |
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| What is a lexicon? | |
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| What is a word? | |
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| How to research words and their meanings | |
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| Structure of this book | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| What do we mean by meaning? | |
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| Overview | |
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| The boundaries of lexical semantics | |
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| The nature of denotative meaning | |
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| Are senses �images in the mind�? | |
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| Meaning and concepts | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Components and prototypes | |
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| Overview | |
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| Senses as definitions: Classical Theory | |
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| An early componential approach - Katz | |
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| Against the classical approach: prototypes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Modern componential approaches - and some alternatives | |
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| Overview and questions | |
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| Jackendoff: Conceptual Semantics | |
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| Pustejovsky: the Generative Lexicon | |
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| Wierzbicka: Natural Semantic Metalanguage | |
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| Alternatives to componential approaches | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Relations among words and senses | |
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| Meaning variation: polysemy, homonymy, and vagueness | |
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| Overview | |
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| Polysemy, homonymy, vagueness | |
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| Meaning variation and language change | |
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| Approaches to polysemy | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Lexical and semantic relations | |
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| Overview | |
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| Paradigmatic relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy | |
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| Two approaches to relations and the lexicon | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Word classes and semantic types | |
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| Ontological categories and word classes | |
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| Overview | |
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| Ontological categories and semantic types | |
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| Word class prototypes | |
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| Ontological categories and lexical semantics: some conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Nouns and countability | |
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| Overview | |
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| Thinking about nouns and things | |
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| Nouns and number: grammar and semantics | |
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| Variation in countability: the Conceptual Semantics approach | |
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| Mass nouns as plurals | |
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| Cultural habits and countability: the NSM approach | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Predication: verbs, Events, and States | |
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| Overview | |
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| The semantics of verbs | |
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| States and Events | |
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| Motion verbs | |
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| Non-verb predicates | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Verbs and time | |
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| Overview | |
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| Tense, aspect, and Aktionsart | |
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| Aktionsart categories | |
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| Vendler classes | |
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| Boundedness and telicity | |
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| Semantic relations among verbs | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Adjectives and properties | |
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| Overview | |
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| Adjectives and the nouns they modify | |
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| Absolute adjectives | |
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| Gradable adjectives and semantic scales | |
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| Properties of scales and types of scalar adjectives | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Answers to puzzles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |