Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of
word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in …

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come
from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary …

Collostructional analysis is a corpus-based quantitative method of measuring the mutual
attraction of lexemes and constructions (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003) which has gained …

When researchers think about the interaction between language and emotion, they typically
focus on descriptive emotion words. This review demonstrates that emotion can interact with …

The gravitational pull hypothesis was introduced as a possible explanation for some general
features of translated language (Halverson 2003, 2010a), building on the cognitive semantic …

The current reintroduction of the concept of 'literal translation'is an important development for
two main reasons. Firstly, it has led to a range of intriguing empirical findings. Secondly, this …

This chapter introduces the field of polysemy and synonymy studies from a Cognitive
Linguistic perspective. Firstly, the discussion explains and defines the object of research …

Word meaning has played a somewhat marginal role in early contemporary philosophy of
language, which focused more on the compositional processes whereby words combine to …

The constructionist framework is more relevant than ever, due to efforts by a broad range of
researchers across the globe, a steady increase in the use of corpus and experimental …

В монографии анализируются базовые парадигмы, определяющие облик лингвистики
во второй половине XX–начале XXI века (изоляционистская, антропоцентричная …