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Lexical semantics - Coggle Diagram
Lexical semantics
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It's another branch of linguistics that has a strong connection to word meaning and looks at the parts of a word
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It is often known as lexicosemantics, and it is a subfield of linguistic semantics
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The morphology of words is known as lexical morphology. It has to do with the form, structure, and study of words.
Semantics is the study of word meaning, while Morphology is the study of word formation
Lexical ambiguity =a term used in a phrase has more than one meaning. Sometimes on purpose for puns.
For Pustejovsky, lexical semantics is a branch of linguistic semantics that focuses on how and what words mean
Lexical units are the basic blocks of lexical semantics. People add to them as they learn new words. In contrast, the grammatical rules of a language may only be easily learned during a crucial period while one is young.
Lexical semantincs investigates the mapping of words to find patterns of associationthat exist between lexical items. These patterns include synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, hypernymy and homonymy