An Introduction to Lexical Semantics A Formal Approach to Word Meaning and its Composition | Linguistics

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An Introduction to Lexical Semantics provides a comprehensive theoretical overview of lexical semantics analysing the major lexical categories in English: verbs nouns adjectives adverbs and prepositions. The book illustrates step-by-step how to use formal semantic tools. Divided into four parts covering the key aspects of lexical semantics this book: introduces readers to the major influential theories including the syntax-lexical semantics interface theory by Levin and Rappaport and Pinker the generative lexicon theory by Pustejovsky and formal semantic analyses discusses key topics in formal semantics including metonymy metaphor and polysemy illustrates how to study word meaning scientifi…