Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations

by Patrick Hanks

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms.

In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018578
• ISBN13: 9780262018579
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher