Class and homework tasks

Build a glossary of terms which are relevant to lexical semantics by defining the terms below.

Define...

definition:

 

Now define these basic terms:

word:

 

morphology:

 

morpheme:

 

stem:

 

inflection:

 

derivation:

 

word formation:

 

And these course-specific terms:

semantics:

 

lexical semantics:

 

meaning:

 

sense:

 

reference:

 

denotation:

 

connotation:

 

collocation:

 

ambiguity:

 

compositionality:

 

Find out about the following people who have made fundamental contributions to semantics:

Frege:

 

Russell:

 

Wittgenstein:

 

Ogden & Richards:

 

Carnap:

 

Quine:

 

Reichenbach:

 

Richard Montague:

 

Hans Kamp:

 

And these textbook authors:

John Lyons:

 

David Cruse:

 

Geoffey Leech:

 

John Saeed:

 

Ernst Leisi:

 

Ronald Carter:

 

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