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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790756203321

Autore

Hirtle Walter

Titolo

Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics / / Walter Hirtle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Canada : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7735-8918-X

0-7735-8917-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Psycholinguistics

Semantics

Discourse analysis

Cognitive grammar

Metaphor

Polysemy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.