TY - BOOK ID - 138467091 TI - Contrastive lexical semantics PY - 1998 SN - 9789027275639 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - Semantics, Comparative. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138467091 AB - Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Mùˆnster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguistics. Whereas the rule-governed model-oriented approach is necessarily restricted to subsets of vocabulary, the pragmatic approach aims to analyse and describe the whole vocabulary-in-use. After the pragmatic turn, lexical semantics can no longer be seen as a discipline on its own but has to be ER -