Lexical analysis : norms and exploitations / Patrick Hanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanks, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicology.

English language--Word formation.

English language.

English language--New words.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. It fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, the book argues, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Words and Meanings: The Need for a New Approach; 2 What Is a Word?; 3 Do Word Meanings Exist?; 4 Prototypes and Norms; 5 Contextual Dependency and Lexical Sets; 6 Norms Change over Time; 7 Three Types of Alternation; 8 Exploitations; 9 Intertextuality: Literature and the Exploitation of Norms; 10 Word and Pattern Meaning: A Complex Linguistic Gestalt; 11 Meaning, Philosophy of Language, and Anthropology; 12 The Role of the Lexicon in Linguistic Theory; 13 The Broader Picture; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-299-05578-8

0-262-31285-9

OCLC:

826659766