Lexical semantics

 Fields and subfields within

linguistics.

phonetics
phonology
morphology
syntax
semantics
- lexical semantics
stylistics
pragmatics

applied linguistics
cognitive linguistics
historical linguistics

Lexical semantics is a field in Computer science and Linguistics which deals mainly with word meaning. It covers various theories of the structure of words, the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure between different languages, and the relationship of word meaning to sentence meaning and syntax.

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