Lexical semantics (original) (raw)
| Fields and subfields within linguistics. |
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| phonetics phonology morphology syntax semantics lexical semantics stylistics pragmatics Cognitive linguistics |
Lexical semantics is a field in Computer science and Linguistics which deals mainly with word meaning. It covers various theories of the structure of words, the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure between different languages, and the relationship of word meaning to sentence meaning and syntax.