Qu'est-ce qu'un mot ? Comment décrire le sens lexical? De quelle façon les mots se combinent-ils dans la phrase en imposant à la grammaire leurs " caprices " de comportement ? Lexicologie et sémantique lexicale est un ouvrage formateur qui vise à répondre à ces questions. Il propose un système cohérent de notions fondamentales qui sont à la base de l'étude et de la modélisation du lexique. En progressant à travers chaque chapitre, le lecteur peut ainsi acquérir graduellement la capacité d'étudier les phénomènes lexicaux pour des applications en linguistique, en lexicographie (rédaction de dictionnaires ou de bases terminologiques), en traduction ou en enseignement de la langue. Ce manuel, organisé en dix chapitres, contient de nombreuses illustrations linguistiques des phénomènes étudiés, illustrations empruntées pour la plupart au français. Chaque chapitre se conclut par une liste de textes complémentaires suggérés et par une série d'exercices pratiques. Les corrigés d'exercices, en fin d'ouvrage, servent à illustrer les méthodes d'analyse linguistique ou à compléter le système notionnel de base présenté dans le corps de l'ouvrage.

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains how lexical analysis complements perspectives primarily focused on knowledge. Topics such as term identification, meaning, polysemy, relations between terms, and equivalence are discussed thoroughly and illustrated with examples taken from various fields of knowledge. This book is an indispensable companion for those who are interested in words and work with specialized terms, e.g. terminologists, translators, lexicographers, corpus linguists. A background in terminology or lexical semantics is not required since all notions are defined and explained. This book complements other textbooks on terminology that do not focus on lexical semantics per se.

A joke, one might think, knowing that ancient grammar famously lacked a syntactic component. Not so, say the scholars: the very absence of the category syntax calls for theoretical and historical analysis, and a scratch at the surface reveals that ancient grammarians did indeed recognize and deal with various aspects of syntax. The 16 papers, five of them in English and the others in German or French, look at syntactic description and reflection in antiquity, Alexandrian grammarians and syntax, virtues and vices of speech, and the Latin and Byzantine heritage. Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Conçu comme une introduction méthodique à la lexicologie, cet ouvrage décrit le lexique dans le système de la langue. Il présente les deux domaines constitutifs de la lexicologie : la sémantique lexicale et la morphologie lexicale. S'adresse aux étudiants de lettres modernes, lettres classiques et de linguistique.

This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct transition from a Semantic Representation of the Meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses in detail the problems of Semantic Representation —including the semantic structure of utterances, the semantics of Causation in English, and communicative, or information, structure. Based on the author's life-long dedication to the study of the semantics and syntax of natural language, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the language sciences whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.