Lexical semantics is the study of how and what the words of a language denote. Words may either be taken to denote things in the world, or concepts (abstract ideas).
Lexical units are the words so lexical semantics involves the meaning of each individual word. Lexical semantics is the one area of linguistics to which we can continually add throughout our lives, as we are always learning new words and their meanings whereas we can only learn the rules of our native language during the critical period when we are young.
As tools, lexical relations (study of relations between different linguistic expressions) like synonymy, homonymy, antonymy, polysemy, paronyms, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy, metonymy, holonymy are used in this field.
Notes from topic:Semantics, Linguistics signature, Ms Jimenez, Yolanda, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela
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