Lexical Semantics

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The scope of linguistic lexical semantics is described from a theoretical and descriptive point of view: an overview of the main theoretical approaches that have succeeded each other in the history of lexical semantics (prestructuralist historical semantics, structuralist semantics, cognitive semantics) provides a framework for illustrating the various descriptive topics and models that were introduced by the successive theories.status: publishe