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19 August 2014. (2014-08-20) (aged 78) Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. [1] His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus ...
Susan Ullmann (1939–1976; his death) Children. Diana, Michael, Patricia. Stephen Ullmann (Hungarian: Ullmann István; 31 July 1914 – 10 January 1976) was a Hungarian linguist who spent most of his life in England and wrote about style and semantics in Romance and common languages.
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction between sense and reference. Sense is given by the ideas and concepts associated with an expression while reference is the object ...
Lyons' introductory texts are Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Chomsky, Semantics, and Linguistic Semantics. He was the creator of a constructed language called Bongo-Bongo, which he created as a teaching tool for his linguistics students. [2] Upon retirement in 2000 he moved to France. He died on 12 March 2020.
Hypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym). The hypernym is also called a supertype, umbrella term, or blanket term. [1][2][3][4] The hyponym is a subtype of the hypernym. The semantic field of the hyponym is included within that of the hypernym. [5]
David Roach Dowty (born 1945 [1]) is a linguist known primarily for his work in semantic and syntactic theory, and especially in Montague grammar and Categorial grammar.Dowty is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University, and his research interests mainly lie in Semantic and Syntactic Theory, Lexical semantics and Thematic roles, Categorial grammar, and Semantics of Tense ...
Lexical semantics. Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It includes the study of how words structure their meaning, how they act in grammar and compositionality, [ 1 ] and the relationships between the distinct senses and uses of a word.
t. e. In linguistics, morphology (mor-FOL-ə-jee[1]) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. [2][3] Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with some independent meaning.