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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The study of [[word]] [[meaning]]. The lexical items that lexical [[semantics]] is concerned with, form the basic expressions that constitute composite meaning. As in semantics in general, one distinguishes three major approaches to meaning: we can ask ourselves how words refer to entities (denotational), how words are represented in the mental lexicon (mentalistic) and how words are used in the appropriate contexts (pragmatic). With respect to compositional theories, two lexical theories are directly relevant: [[decomposition of word meaning]], and a theory using [[meaning postulate]]s. Traditional problems concern semantic relations between words (like [[homonymy]], [[synonymy]], [[hyperonymy]], and [[hyponymy]]), [[thematic role]]s, fixed versus variable word meaning and [[polysemy]] and metaphoric and [[idiom]]atic interpretation.<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Lexical+semantics&amp;lemmacode=612 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Jackendoff, R. 1990. ''Semantic Structures,'' Cambridge, MIT-Press.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Semantics]]</div>

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