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 the dominant 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 a mere 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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