Lexical Semantics.

Cruse, D. A. (1986). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge University Press.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1986

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL470141Wmatched

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linguistics_semiotics

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Primes

• Polysemy
  • … or abstraction); (3) context disambiguates — hearers/readers select the intended sense from local cues (syntactic slot, discourse topic, world knowledge); (4) polysemy is distinct from both homonymy (unrelated senses sharing a form by accident) and vagueness (a single sense with fuzzy boundaries)

Domain-specific

• Lexical Converse Relation
  • Replacing one predicate by its converse and exchanging the participants yields a semantic paraphrase, not a negation.

    This sourceCruse distinguishes reversives from relational opposites.

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