Language is “the language of words”, and words determine other language units (Saussure, 1916). The core of words lies in their meanings, which have always been a significant topic of lexical semantic studies. “Lexical semantics is the development of traditional semantics and a branch of modern semantics” (Zhang Zhiyi & Zhang Qingyun, 2012: 9).

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Lexical Semantics Studies

  • Xu Wen,
  • Ruiliang Tang

摘要

Language is “the language of words”, and words determine other language units (Saussure, 1916). The core of words lies in their meanings, which have always been a significant topic of lexical semantic studies. “Lexical semantics is the development of traditional semantics and a branch of modern semantics” (Zhang Zhiyi & Zhang Qingyun, 2012: 9).