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Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics / Walter Hirtle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirtle, Walter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psycholinguistics.
- Semantics.
- Discourse analysis.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Metaphor.
- Polysemy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Canada : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.
- Contents:
- I Situating the Question. Language as a Human Phenomenon
- Linguists and the Tradition
- Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry?
- II Making Words. Coming to Grips with Meaning
- How Access "Got Verbed"
- Wording
- III Lexemes of verbs. Monosemy and Polysemy
- Discerning Different Senses of See
- Grammatical (In)compatibility with Other Verbs
- Do, Be, Have
- Working Out the Right Sense
- IV Lexemes of Substantives. Common and Proper
- 'Unbounded' and 'Bounded'
- Metaphor
- V The Grammatical Connection. Making Lexemes into Nouns
- Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs
- VI Concluding Remarks
- Conclusion
- GLossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780773589186
- 077358918X
- 9780773589179
- 0773589171
- OCLC:
- 923239301
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