Books by M. Lynne (University of Sussex) Murphy

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The book explores the relationship between word meanings and syntax and semantics more generally.

This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, as opposites or synonyms, for example, and what these say about the mental organization of our vocabularies. The author argues for a pragmatic approach to lexical relations, as opposed to the traditional 'lexical' approach.