Words and Phrases Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics [Paperback]

Figures, Concordances and Tables xi

Acknowledgements xii

Data Conventions and Terminology xiv

Notes on Corpus Data and Software xvi

Part I Introduction 1

1 Words in Use: Introductory Examples 3

1.1 Text and Discourse: Some Distinctions 5

1.2 Language, Action, Knowledge and Situation 6

1.3 Words and Expectations 7

1.4 Language, Logic and Truth 8

1.5 Common-sense Knowledge 9

1.6 Linguistic Conventions 11

1.7 Possible and Actual 13

1.8 Summary and Implications 19

1.9 Background and Further Reading 21

1.10 Topics for Further Study

2 Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts 24

2.1 Terminology 24

2.2 Words: Word-forms and Lemmas 25

2.3 Collection 29

2.4 Words and Units of Meaning 30

2.5 Delexicalization 32

2.6 Denotion and Connection 34

2.7 Relational Lexical Semantics 35

2.8 Frequent Lexical Semantics 35

2.9 Two Examples 43

2.10 Summary and Implications 49

2.11 Background and Further Reading 50