Theories of Lexical Semantics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198700319)

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and the dominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well beyond a mere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution.

Author: Dirk Geeraerts
ISBN-10: 0198700318
ISBN-13: 9780198700319
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2010
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.90d