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Lexical semantic
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To represent
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The meaning
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Each word
- In a language
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To show
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How the meanings
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of words
- in a language
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Entailment
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A reflection
- Lexical knowledge
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Logical word
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Different categories
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Of words
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Semantic description
- For example:
- Names
- Common nouns
- Pronouns
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Orthographic words
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words can be identified
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At the level of writing
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where we are familiar with them
- Being separated by white space
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They can also be identified
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At the level of phonology
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Where they are strings of sounds
- May show internal structuring
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lexical entry
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Lexemes or senses
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The lexicographer
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Tries to group words
- Depending:
- Grammatical properties
- Phonological properties
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Phrasal verbs
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Is the existence
- Of multi-word units
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A string of words
- Can correspond to a single semantic unit
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idioms
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Expressions
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Where the individual words
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Have ceased to have
- Independent meanings
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Collocation
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Is the tendency
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For words
- To occur together repeatedly
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Ambiguity
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Is more potential than real
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Usually they involve inventing
- A sentence and a context
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Zeugma
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Is a feeling of oddness or anomaly
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When two distinct senses of a word
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Are activated at the same item
- In the same sentence
- By conjunction