Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and Other Paradigms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521070584)

This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, for example, as opposites or synonyms, and how they relate to the mental organization of our vocabularies. Traditional approaches claim that such relationships are part of our lexical knowledge (our "dictionary" of mentally stored words) but Lynne Murphy argues that lexical relationships actually constitute our "metalinguistic" knowledge. The book draws on a century of previous research, including word association experiments, child language, and the use of synonyms and antonyms in text.

Author: M. Lynne Murphy
ISBN-10: 0521070589
ISBN-13: 9780521070584
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2008
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d