"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 ...

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

The N400 response is one of the best-studied ERP components associated with language processing. Manipulations such as semantic priming ('coffee' → 'tea') and contextual fit ('I like my coffee with ...

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), ...

This page introduces a new way of exploring lexical semantics in Akkadian. A User Guide, videos, help, and FAQs are available for the ANEE Lexical Portal Help Page. How to cite this portal Aleksi ...

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 ...

Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, syntax and related disciplines, in ...

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 paper deals with different theoretical aspects of lexical variation and change. More exactly, I will focus here on the analysis of some of the different ways lexical and non-lexical linguistic ...

Semantics is studied for a number of different reasons but perhaps one of the main reasons could be: “If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication ...