Modern lexicography and semantics have evolved into an interdisciplinary field that integrates traditional dictionary compilation with cognitive linguistic theories and computational methodologies.

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

This talk by Elisabetta Ježek presents linguistic evidence why we need a context-sensitive model of lexical semantics to account for how lexical information, cognitive knowledge, pragmatic inference ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Please register by Sunday 10th of February, so we can order coffee and refreshments: https://goo. gl/forms/llnsYZIbxfybYSZi2. Attendance is free. The workshop will take place on Feb 18/02/2019 from 13 ...

VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler 2005) is a hierarchical domain- independent, broad-coverage verb lexicon with mappings to several widely-used verb resources, including WordNet (Miller 1990, Fellbaum 1998), ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...

"This chart shows the lexical distance — that is, the degree of overall vocabulary divergence — among the major languages of Europe. "The size of each circle represents the number of speakers for that ...

This page introduces a new way of exploring lexical semantics in Akkadian. Team 1 of the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE) has created a lexical portal that functions as a ...