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Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics / Walter Hirtle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [England] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013.; Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013.Edition: [CEL versionDescription: 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773589179
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • P325 .M355 2013
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Contents:
Linguists and the Tradition -- Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry?
How Access "Got Verbed" -- Wording
Discerning Different Senses of See -- Grammatical (In)compatibility with Other Verbs -- Do, Be, Have -- Working Out the Right Sense
'Unbounded' and 'Bounded' -- Metaphor
Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs
Conclusion -- GLossary.
Subject: Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.

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