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By Elisabetta Ježek

The Lexicon presents an creation to the learn of phrases, their major houses, and the way we use them to create that means. It bargains an in depth description of the organizing rules of the lexicon, and of the types used to categorise a variety of lexical phenomena, together with polysemy, that means edition in composition, and the interaction with ontology, syntax, and pragmatics. Elisabetta Ježek makes use of empirical information from digitalized corpora and
speakers' decisions, mixed with the formalisms built within the box of basic and theoretical linguistics, to suggest representations for every of those phenomena. the most important characteristic of the booklet is that it merges theoretical debts with lexicographic ways and computational insights. Its transparent constitution and
accessible procedure make The Lexicon a great textbook for all scholars of linguistics—theoretical, utilized, and computational—and a worthwhile source for students and scholars of language within the fields of cognitive technology and philosophy.

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