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Lexical Semantics
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Lexical semantics is the branch of linguistic semantics concerned with the meanings conventionally associated with lexical items and with the systematic relations among those meanings within a language’s lexicon [1][2]. It examines the internal semantic structure of lexemes, including the delimitation and organization of word senses, as well as relations such as synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, and lexical ambiguity [1][3]. The field also addresses the extent to which lexical meaning is shaped by grammatical category, conceptual structure, and patterns of use, while distinguishing relatively stable, lexically encoded meaning from the context-dependent interpretatilexical meaning; word sense; semantic relations; polysemyon investigated primarily in compositional semantics and pragmatics [2][3].

lexical meaning word sense semantic relations polysemy

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  1. M. Lynne Murphy. Lexical Meaning; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2010. [CrossRef]
  2. Pustejovsky, J. 1995. The Generative Lexicon; MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA. Available online: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262661409/the-generative-lexicon/
  3. Rochelle Lieber. Morphology and Lexical Semantics; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2001. [CrossRef]
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