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An Overview of Lexical Semantics
Author(s) -
Johnson Kent
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00101.x
Subject(s) - lexical semantics , semantics (computer science) , linguistics , sort , computer science , section (typography) , natural language processing , computational semantics , lexical item , artificial intelligence , philosophy , operational semantics , information retrieval , programming language , operating system
This article reviews some linguistic and philosophical work in lexical semantics. In Section 1, the general methods of lexical semantics are explored, with particular attention to how semantic features of verbs are associated with grammatical patterns. In Section 2, philosophical consequences and issues arising from this sort of research is reviewed.