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Autore |
Hirtle Walter |
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Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics / / Walter Hirtle |
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Montreal, Canada : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-8918-X |
0-7735-8917-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psycholinguistics |
Semantics |
Discourse analysis |
Cognitive grammar |
Metaphor |
Polysemy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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I Situating the Question. Language as a Human Phenomenon -- Linguists and the Tradition -- Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry? -- |
II Making Words. Coming to Grips with Meaning -- How Access "Got Verbed" -- Wording -- |
III Lexemes of verbs. Monosemy and Polysemy -- Discerning Different Senses of See -- Grammatical (In)compatibility with Other Verbs -- Do, Be, Have -- Working Out the Right Sense -- |
IV Lexemes of Substantives. Common and Proper -- 'Unbounded' and 'Bounded' -- Metaphor -- |
V The Grammatical Connection. Making Lexemes into Nouns -- Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs -- |
VI Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion -- GLossary. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words. |
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