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Title: Wat er in een woord zit : Facetten van de lexicale semantiek

Author: Dirk Geeraerts

Publisher: Peeters, Leuven; January 1989

Level: Introductory Monograph

Field: Semantics / Lexical semantics

Keywords: word meaning, prototype, polysemy, vagueness, variation

ISBN: 9068311603, Dutch, Paperback, 268 pages

Publisher's Abstract:

Wat er in een woord zit ("What there is in a word") is a sort of sequel to Woordbetekenis of 1986. Whereas the latter is a historical overview of theories of word meaning, the 1989 book is an introduction to word meaning as such, i.e. to lexical semantic phenomena in all their aspects and to the way in which they may be described. Taking a systematically prototype-theoretical point of view, the book discusses topics like polysemy and vagueness, non-referential types of meaning, meaning change and meaning variation, and the relationship between theoretical lexical semantic and practical lexicography.

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Geeraerts, Dirk. 1989. Wat er in een woord zit: Facetten van de lexicale semantiek. Leuven: Peeters.

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