Lexicon: An Introduction

by Elisabetta Ježek

This book provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed description of the organizational principles of the lexicon, and of the categories used to classify various lexical phenomena, including polysemy, meaning variation, behavior in composition, and the interface with pragmatics. Elisabetta Jezek uses empirical data from digitalized corpora and speakers' judgments,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601542
• ISBN13: 9780199601547
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"