Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

2. Lexical semantics

Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

Zeki Hamawand [+-]
University of Kirkuk and University of Sulaimani
Zeki Hamawand is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kirkuk and a senior lecturer at the University of Sulaimani, Iraq. He is the author of several books including Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (Lincom 2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (Equinox 2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (Palgrave 2008), The semantics of English Negative Prefixes (Equinox 2009), and Morphology in English: Word Formation in Cognitive Grammar (Continuum 2011).

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Chapter 2 explores lexical semantics, the branch of semantics which deals with the meanings of words. The aim is to show how the lexicon is organized, how the words of a language are interrelated and how their meanings are consequently interpreted. The chapter addresses two concerns. One relates to terminology. It introduces the terms used in the study of lexical semantics and defines them in a way that is both concise and precise. The other pertains to relation. It introduces the meaning relations which exist between words. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2.1 focuses on the issue of what the term word is and what word meaning is. Section 2.2 centres on the types of paradigmatic relations which exist between words. Section 2.3 concentrates on the types of syntagmatic relations which exist between words. Section 2.4 combines both paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in the description of words. In all the sections, I pursue three steps. First, I introduce the term. Second, I explain its meaning. Third, I devise an exercise to test its application. Section 2.5 summarizes the main points of the chapter.

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Hamawand, Zeki . 2. Lexical semantics. Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 23-38 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781781792490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=26432. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.26432. Jan 2016

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