Lexical decomposition in cognitive semantics.

This dissertation formulates, defends, and exemplifies a semantic approach that I call Cognitive Decompositionism. Cognitive Decompositionism is one version of lexical decompositionism, which holds that the meaning of lexical items are decomposable into component parts. Decompositionism comes in dif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saka, Paul.
Other Authors: Lehrer, Adrienne
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1991
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185592