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Theories of Lexical Semantics - Dirk Geeraerts

Theories of Lexical Semantics

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Buch | Softcover
364 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-870031-9 (ISBN)
CHF 76,95 inkl. MwSt
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. It charts the evolution of lexical semantics from the mid nineteenth century to the present day, presenting the main ideas, landmark publications, and the dominant figures ofthe the five semantic traditions.
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.

Dirk Geeraerts is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Leuven and head of the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics. He is the author of The Structure of Lexical Variation (1994), Diachronic Prototype Semantics (1997), and Words and Other Wonders (2006) and the editor, along with Hubert Cuyckens, of The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (2007).

Introduction ; 1. Historical-Philological Semantics ; 2. Structuralist Semantics ; 3. Generativist Semantics ; 4. Neostructuralist Semantics ; 5. Cognitive Semantics ; Conclusion ; References

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.11.2009
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Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 173 x 246 mm
Gewicht 650 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-19-870031-8 / 0198700318
ISBN-13 978-0-19-870031-9 / 9780198700319
Zustand Neuware
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