Lexicography – the art and science of dictionary-making – and semantics – the study of meaning in language – are intertwined disciplines that illuminate how words are organised, defined and used.

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 ...

Please register by Sunday 10th of February, so we can order coffee and refreshments: https://goo. gl/forms/llnsYZIbxfybYSZi2. Attendance is free. The workshop will take place on Feb 18/02/2019 from 13 ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

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), ...

Linguistics isn’t just about grammar rules—it’s about uncovering how humans create, interpret, and share meaning. From the subtle shifts in word meanings over time to surprising universal speech ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

"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 ...

Alan Cruse, who has died aged 86, was a member of the department of linguistics at the University of Manchester for 30 years and a leading figure in linguistics in the field of lexical semantics. His ...