Lexical meaning in context : a web of words / Nicholas Asher.
What is a word? In some sense the answer is obvious: words are things dictionaries try to define. This book offers an innovative formal framework for investigating the meanings of words, how word meanings compose together to form sentence meanings and how discourse context can affect the composition...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Table of contents Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | What is a word? In some sense the answer is obvious: words are things dictionaries try to define. This book offers an innovative formal framework for investigating the meanings of words, how word meanings compose together to form sentence meanings and how discourse context can affect the compositional process. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511793936 9780511793936 1139076329 9781139076326 1139078615 9781139078610 1139083155 9781139083157 1283118939 9781283118934 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511793936 |