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Semantics and the Dictionary - Coggle Diagram
Semantics and the Dictionary
Practical and theoretical Dictionaries
The Lexicon (or ´Theoretical´ Dictionary)
Theoretical plan) of the lexicon of the English
Part of the competence of the native speaker
The lexicon
Will be considered as an unordered list or set of lexical entries
A lexical entry
As a combination of three specifications:
A morphological specification
A syntactic specification
A semantic specification
Graded Acceptability
Lexical rules
Creative'
Productive
Aspect of the lexicon
explain the interrelationships of derivation that we recognize
uncrumplability
the acceptability of sentence
How new lexical entries come into existence
Types of Lexical Rule
semantic transfer
Only the semantic specification changes.
Morphological derivation
Semantic transfer
Semantic Items
conversion
A change in the syntactic function
Without a corresponding change in morphological form
Homonymy and polysemy
Homonymy
Two more words having the same pronunciation and/or spelling’
polysemy
One word having two or mores senses
The one meaning can be derived from the other
‘Related’ means
There are two answers, one historical and once psychological
Related Entries
Lexicon
Vocabulary
Two meanings are historically related if they can be traced back to the same source
Further Observations about Lexical Rules
Generate new lexical entries
morphological derivation
Five properties of lexical rules
Diversity
Open-endedness
Recursiveness
Bi-directionality
The Form of Lexical Rules
Change of syntactic function
Metonymic rule
and a change of meaning
A skeleton lexical rule for the addition of -less to a noun
Semantic transfer
Lexical rule which brings about a major change in the semantic specification only
Semantic menaing