Word meaning

Word meaning

1. Lexical semantics

   • study of word meaning
   • Aim
     • represent meaning
     • show meaning interrelation

2. Words and grammatical categories

   • nouns
   • logical words
   • pronouns
   • names
   • words
     • level of writing
       • separated by white space
         • ortographic words
     • levels of phonology
       • strings of sound
         • internal structuring
       • syntax
         • word representation by grammatical variants

3. problems with pinning down words

   • collocation
   • ambiguity
   • vagueness

4. Lexical relations

   • Homonymy
   • Polysemy
     • historical development
     • intuitions
   • Opposites (Antonymy)
     • Reverses
     • Converses
     • Gradable antonyms
       • Intermediate terms
       • Relative terms
       • common and basic
     • Taxonomic sisters
     • simple
   • Synonymy
     • formal
     • colloquial
     • literary
   • Hyponymy
   • Meronymy
     • member-collection
     • portion-mass

5. Derivational relations

   • causative verbs
     • state
     • change of state
     • causative
   • agentive verbs
     • irregularities
     • elsewhere condition

6. Lexical universals

   • color terms
     • monolexemic
     • is not hyponym of other
     • wide applicability
     • not a semantic extension
   • core vocabulary

7. Universal lexemes

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