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<tt>Patrick Hanks has somewhere indicated that a lexeme acquires all
sorts of components of meaning in its travels through its uses. As
a result, any given context activates some subset of those
components. A listener or reader has to listen or read carefully
to identify just what components are being activated. My wife does
this quite interestingly, picking and choosing from so-called
different senses, frequently coming up with combinations that give
me pause. I find this process quite intriguing. Clearly, a lexeme
is defined by the company it keeps. Different dictionaries are
only capturing a moment in time and space, keeping corpus
linguists gainfully employed and challenged.<br>
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Ken<br>
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On 9/10/2010 3:52 PM, Jim Fidelholtz wrote:
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<div>In answer to Ramesh, I don't (and shouldn't) exclude
multi-word lexemes, although my comments (and Baayen's research)
were focused on traditional 'words' (ie, written text units
separated by spaces, eg). I'm not well-versed enough in Cruse's
theory to comment very cogently, but Tadeusz's characterization
of it does not sound like a restrictive enough theory for my
tastes; it rather sounds like 'anything goes', pretty much like
my understanding of traditional semantic theory (a clear and
cogent discussion of semantic theory(es) is found in the first
chapters of Wilks et al., _Electric words_, approximately 1996
or so). My inclination is to prefer a very restrictive theory
until it can be shown that data do not support it (and, given
human nature, but also for sound scientific reasons, a bit
beyond that point, in the interest of seeing what are the
ultimate consequences of the original assumptions, in part to
see if they are worth tweaking). Here, my strong feeling about
subsidiary senses (polysemy) is that they are derivable (often
via metaphor) from the linguistic context. Independently of
this, such derived senses (I would hypothesize: a finite subset
of them) may, over time, develop independent semantics, as
separate submeanings or even separate lexemes. It's hard for me
to fathom a practicable (both linguistically and cognitively)
semantic theory without some similar assumptions.</div>
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James L. Fidelholtz<br>
Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje<br>
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades<br>
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO<br>
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