Semantic relations and the lexicon : antonymy, synonymy and other paradigms / M. Lynne Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, M. Lynne.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Lexicology--Psychological aspects.

Lexicology.

Physical Description:

ix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Semantic Relations and the Lexicon explores the many paradigmatic semantic relations between words, such as synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy, and their relevance to the mental organization of our vocabularies. Drawing on a century's research in linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and computer science, M. Lynne Murphy proposes a new, pragmatic approach to these relations. Whereas traditional approaches have claimed that paradigmatic relations are part of our lexical knowledge, Dr. Murphy argues that they constitute metalinguistic knowledge, which can be derived through a single relational principle, and may also be stored as part of our conceptual representation of a word. Part I shows how this approach can account for the properties of lexical relations in ways that traditional approaches cannot, and Part II examines particular relations in detail. This book will serve as an informative handbook for all linguists and cognitive scientists interested in the mental representation of vocabulary.

Contents:

Part I Paradigmatic relations, generally

1 Why lexical relations? 3

2 A pragmatic approach to semantic relations 25

3 Other approaches 61

Part II Paradigmatic relations, specifically

4 Synonymy and similarity 133

5 Antonymy and contrast 169

6 Hyponymy, meronymy, and other relations 216

7 Lexicon and metalexicon: implications and explorations 237

Appendix Relation elements 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521780675

OCLC:

51855664

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