Beschrijving
Presents a cognitively realistic, clustered model for near-synonymy that addresses the question of how semantic knowledge is distributed along the continuum from grammar to lexicon. This book proposes an approach to quantifying meaning, while re-appraising traditional semantic theory and re-evaluating existing accounts of near-synonymy.
Given that we lack sensory-motor experience for abstract concepts, how do we find out what they mean? How far can we get by tracking frequency distributions in input? The volume tackles the question of what language has to offer the language learner in his/her quest for meaning, and explicitly addresses how semantic knowledge may be distributed along the continuum from \
