I n this chapter, I examine three problems: the acquisition of tense and aspect, the
acquisition of cryptotypes, and the development of lexical structure. The central issue in all …

The most noticeable feature that distinguishes human beings from animals is their (human
beings) ability to communicate with each other in different con-textual situations. Due to the …

What is the basis of our ability to assign meanings to words or to objects? Such questions
have, until recently, been regarded as lying within the province of philosophy and linguistics …

In his exploration of word meaning, Walter Hirtle examines an important and controversial
topic in lexical semantics: polysemy, the capacity of words to manifest a range of different …

People sometimes play games with words. People may also recite or memorise lists of
words, for example when trying to learn the words of another language or to remember …

Vyvyan Evans writes in the preface that his book is intended for general linguists, cognitive
scientists, cognitive linguists, and the educated lay reader. It is not entirely clear, however …

Children need first to recognize that words communicate information. For individual words,
children must identify both reference and sense, the semantic or conceptual domain each …

Semantics as a distinct field was first proposed by Bréal in 1883. He suggested the term
“sémantique” for the study of “the laws which govern the transformation of sense, the choice …

Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic
meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for …

This paper presents an account of semantics as a system that integrates conceptual
representations into language. I define the semantic system as an interface level of the …