LINGUIST List 14.2155

Wed Aug 13 2003

Books: Semantics: Murphy

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Murphy

Title: Semantic Relations and the Lexicon
Subtitle: An Extralexical Approach
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
 http://www.cup.org		 
			
Author: M. Lynne Murphy, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.

Hardback: ISBN: 0521780675, Pages: 350 / 12 figures/7 tables, Price:
	 $65.00
			
Abstract:

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.

Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories
		Semantics
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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