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Lexical Sematics Vs Phrasal Semantics

Lexical semantics is the systematic study of meaning-related properties of words, including how to specify a word's meaning, and relationships between words such as synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy. It examines syntagmatic relations of meaning and is contrasted with phrasal semantics, which studies the meaning of syntactic units larger than a word like phrases and sentences composed of individual words.

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Lexical Sematics Vs Phrasal Semantics

Lexical semantics is the systematic study of meaning-related properties of words, including how to specify a word's meaning, and relationships between words such as synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy. It examines syntagmatic relations of meaning and is contrasted with phrasal semantics, which studies the meaning of syntactic units larger than a word like phrases and sentences composed of individual words.

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lexical semantics The systematic study of meaning-related properties of

words. Exactly what is included in the field is likely to vary from scholar
to scholar, but central topics include: how best to specify the meaning of
a word; paradigmatic relations of meaning such as synonymy, antonymy,
and hyponymy; syntagmatic relations of meaning.

Lexical semantics is usually contrasted with phrasal (or grammatical)


semantics, which is concerned with the meaning of syntactic units
larger than the word.

Lexical semantics is the study of word meaning, whereas phrasal


semantics is the study of the principles which govern the construction of
the meaning of phrases and of sentence meaning out of compositional
combinations of individual lexemes. . . .

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