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Semantics (Greek semain- = to mean) is the only branch of linguistics which is exclusively concerned with meaning. Semantics studies the meaning or meaning potential of various kinds of expressions: words, phrases, and sentences. This chapter is mainly confined to the study of word meaning (lexical semantics; lexicology). Research in lexical semantics addresses the following questions.
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Kortmann, B. (2020). Semantics: Word and sentence meaning. In: English Linguistics. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05678-8_6
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