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Theories of Lexical Semantics

By: Dirk Geeraerts

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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 linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and thedominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well beyond amere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution.

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Oxford University Press

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019870030X

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The Structure of Lexical Variation

Meaning, Naming, and Context

By: Dirk Geeraerts,Stefan Grondelaers,Peter Bakema

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The Structure of Lexical Variation

Meaning, Naming, and Context

By: Dirk Geeraerts,Stefan Grondelaers,Peter Bakema

The Structure of Lexical Variation : Meaning, Naming, and Context.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110873060

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9783110873061

Words and Other Wonders

Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics

By: Dirk Geeraerts

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Words and Other Wonders

Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics

By: Dirk Geeraerts

Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings together seventeen previously published papers that testify to the fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of lexical and semantic topics. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may be considered classics within the field of cognitive linguistic lexicology. The papers are grouped in thematic sections. The first section deals with prototypicality as a theoretical and practical model of semantic descripti.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110190427

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9783110190427

Diachronic Prototype Semantics

A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

By: Dirk Geeraerts

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Diachronic Prototype Semantics

A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

By: Dirk Geeraerts

The author strikes a balance between theoretical exploration and diachronic description, supporting each step in the argumentation with detailed case studies which chart the semantic development of particular words, or illustrate specific mechanisms of semantic change. Thus the book provides both a theoretical model for diachronic semantics and a number of methodological strategies and representational formats that exemplify how changes of word meaning can be studied in practice.

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Oxford University Press

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0198236522

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9780198236528

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

By: Dirk Geeraerts

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Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

By: Dirk Geeraerts

Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures, a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The ‘variation of meaning’ perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The ‘meaning of variation’ perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.

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BRILL

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9004336842

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9789004336841

Lexical Variation and Change

A Distributional Semantic Approach

By: Geeraerts

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Lexical Variation and Change

A Distributional Semantic Approach

By: Geeraerts

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book introduces a systematic framework for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a distributional semantics approach. Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in various types of quantitative analysis of the corpus contexts in which words appear. In this book, the authors explore how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces, as an advanced form of such a quantitative methodology, can be applied to the study of polysemy, lexical variation, and lectometry. What can distributional models reveal about meaning? How can they be used to analyse the semantic relationship between near-synonyms, and to identify strict synonymy? How can they contribute to the study of lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable, and to the use of those variables to measure convergence or divergence between language varieties? To answer these questions, the book presents a comprehensive model of lexical and semantic variation, based on the combination of a semasiological, an onomasiological, and a lectal dimension. It explains the mechanism of distributional modelling, both informally and technically, and introduces workflows and corpus linguistic tools that implement a distributional perspective in lexical research. Combining a cognitive linguistic interest in meaning with a sociolinguistic interest in variation, the authors illustrate this distributional methodology using case studies of Dutch and Spanish lexical data that focus on the detection of polysemy, the interaction of semasiological and onomasiological change, and sociolinguistic issues of lexical standardization and pluricentricity. Throughout, they highlight both the advantages and disadvantages of a distributional methodology: on the one hand, it has great potential to be scaled up for lexical research; on the other, its outcome does not necessarily neatly correspond with what would traditionally be considered different senses.

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Oxford University Press

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0198890672

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9780198890676

The Public Prosecutor

By: Jef Geeraerts

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The Public Prosecutor

By: Jef Geeraerts

A violently funny thriller and vitriolic exposé of Opus Dei's influence in judicially corrupt Belgium.

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Bitter Lemon Press

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1904738389

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9781904738381

Perspectives for a European Security Strategy Towards Asia

Views from Asia, Europe and the US

By: Gustaaf Geeraerts

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Perspectives for a European Security Strategy Towards Asia

Views from Asia, Europe and the US

By: Gustaaf Geeraerts

As the geopolitical point of gravity moves to the east, the European Union (EU) faces the challenge of ongoing global power shifts, and this study addresses the options, opportunities, and obstacles that lie ahead as the EU becomes a security actor in Asia and Africa. Contributors address a number of key issues, including the EU’s soft power, overall strategic planning, European interests in Asia, and the role of Russia in Asia’s security climate.

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ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA

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9054877766

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9789054877769

Possibilities of Civilian Defense in Western Europe

By: Gustaaf Geeraerts

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Possibilities of Civilian Defense in Western Europe

By: Gustaaf Geeraerts

This is a collection of the 13 essays making up the proceedings of the 2nd international working conference on violence and non-violent action in industrialized Societies held in Brussels on the March 24-26th, 1976.

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Routledge

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1000678717

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9781000678710

Romeinse suite

literaire thriller

By: Jef Geeraerts,Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts

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Romeinse suite

literaire thriller

By: Jef Geeraerts,Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts

Een Antwerpse politieman stelt in Rome een onderzoek in naar de dood van een doktersvrouw.

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9461010710

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Double-Face

By: Jef Geeraerts

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Double-Face

By: Jef Geeraerts

Vincke & Verstuyft zijn terug in 'Het Tweede Gelaat', de indrukwekkende verfilming van Jef Geeraerts' 'Double-face'. Op de Kalmthoutse Heide vindt een jogger het onthoofde en verminkte lijk van een jonge vrouw. Deze lugubere vondst is de eerste in een akelige reeks ontdekkingen die stuk voor stuk het waanzinnige werk zijn van een koele seriemoordenaar. Het speurdersduo Vincke & Verstuyft slaagt er maar moeizaam in deze duistere zaak te ontrafelen. Door puur toeval wordt de dader uiteindelijk in Antwerpen gearresteerd. Wat tijdens het verhoor aan het licht komt, tart alle verbeelding. Deze speciale editie van 'Double-face' verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de verfilming ervan als 'Het Tweede Gelaat' door Jan Verheyen. Het is het spannende sluitstuk van de Vincke & Verstuyft-filmtrilogie en het langverwachte vervolg op 'De Zaak Alzheimer' en 'Dossier K.', twee absolute kaskrakers met een Vlaamse topcast.

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Manteau

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9460415873

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9789460415876

Book's by Geeraerts

Theories of Lexical Semantics

Theories of Lexical Semantics

The Structure of Lexical Variation

The Structure of Lexical Variation

Words and Other Wonders

Words and Other Wonders

Diachronic Prototype Semantics

Diachronic Prototype Semantics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Lexical Variation and Change

Lexical Variation and Change

The Public Prosecutor

The Public Prosecutor

Perspectives for a European Security Strategy Towards Asia

Perspectives for a European Security Strategy Towards Asia

Possibilities of Civilian Defense in Western Europe

Possibilities of Civilian Defense in Western Europe

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