Abstract

Key words: lexical semantics, lexicon, lexis, mental lexicon, lexeme, conventional, (non-)compositional, arbitrary, lexical unit, word, idiom, collocation, open/closed class, lexicography, corpus, native speaker intuition Overview In order to set the stage for exploring lexical semantics, this chapter defines basic terms and ideas in the field, particularly the notions of lexicon , lexeme , and word . It then describes and evaluates four methods for investigating the lexicon: dictionaries, corpora, intuition, and experimentation.

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