Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics / / Walter Hirtle
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| Autore: |
Hirtle Walter
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| Titolo: |
Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics / / Walter Hirtle
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal, Canada : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401.43 |
| Soggetto topico: | Psycholinguistics |
| Semantics | |
| Discourse analysis | |
| Cognitive grammar | |
| Metaphor | |
| Polysemy | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making sense out of meaning |
| ISBN: | 0-7735-8918-X |
| 0-7735-8917-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790756203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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