Definitional semantics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. I. General Foundations and a Historical Perspective
7. Metaphysics of the dictionary versus the lexicon 3
8. Vocabulary acquisition and the mental lexicon 21
9. Evidence and intuition in lexicography 31
10. Definitional semantics 43
11. The Dictionary of Justus Georg Schottelius or ‘generativism’ in a 17th-century grammar?! 57
12. II. Word Formation and Syntax
13. The interaction of semantic and formal structures in the lexicon 75
14. Oppositeness of meaning, word formation, and lexicography 93
15. An example of interaction between syntax and semantics 113
16. Semantic regularities in dictionaries 123
17. III. Semantics and Pragmatics
18. The axiological aspect of idealized cognitive models 135
19. A cognitive approach to spatial terms represented by ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’ in English and their metaphorical extensions 167
20. Meaning, synonymy, and the dictionary 181
21. Dynamics in meaning as a problem for bilingual lexicography 209
22. Functional grammar and lexematics in lexicography 227
23. Metalinguistic behaviour and language study 255
24. The Meaning-Text Model of language and practical lexicography 277
25. Translation-specific lexical items and their representation in the dictionary 287
26. IV. Diachrony
27. Semantic approaches to an historical thesaurus 303
28. Some problems of Indo-European lexicography 315
29. Index 327