SEMANTICS AND DICTIONARY

SEMANTICS AND DICTIONARY

1. PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL DICTIONARY

   • semantic competence
   • the dictionary as a book adapts to the different needs of society.

2. THE LEXICON (OR "THEORETICAL" DICTIONARY )

   • a set of lexical rubrics.
   • Similar types of definition could be provided for other parts of speech

3. GRADED ACCEPTABILITY

   • The actual acceptability
     • accreditation recognized
   • The potential acceptability
     • lexical rubric using a lexical rule
   • The unacceptability
     • of a lexical rubric that lexical rules which do not allow

4. TYPES OF LEXICAL RULE

   • Morphological derivation
     • the addition of an affix to the original morphological specification
   • Conversion
     • It involves a change in syntactic function without a change in morphological specificity.
   • Semantic transfer
     • It is a lexical rule that produces a change of the semantic specification only.

5. HOMONIMY AND POLYSEMY

   • Polysemy is the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase. Homonymy is the existence of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins