Words and Meanings: The Need for a New Approch
Words and Meanings: The Need for a New Approch
This book offers an empirical analysis of word meaning and word use in language, with an emphasis on the lexicon, and argues that anyone (or any machine) acquiring a natural language needs to be competent in not one, but two, interlinked systems of rule-governed behavior. It illustrates how people make comparisons when using language to describe new situations and unfamiliar phenomena and discusses the theory of norms and exploitations, semantic types and their arrangement into hierarchical conceptual ontologies, and patterns of collocations and syntactic dependencies. In addition, the book outlines a lexically based approach to linguistic theory.
Keywords: word meaning, word use, lexicon, natural language, theory of norms, ontologies, collocations, syntactic dependencies, language, linguistic theory
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