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目次

Part I. Meaning and the Lexicon: 1. The lexicon - some preliminaries; 2.What do we mean by meaning?; 3. Components and prototypes; 4. Moderncomponential approaches - and some alternatives; Part II. Relations AmongWords and Senses: 5. Meaning variation: polysemy, homonymy and vagueness; 6.Lexical and semantic relations; Part III. Word Classes and Semantic Types: 7.Ontological categories and word classes; 8. Nouns and countability; 9.Predication: verbs, events, and states; 10. Verbs and time; 11. Adjectivesand properties.