Lexical Semantics Studies
摘要
Language is “the language of words”, and words determine other language units (Saussure, 1916). The core of words lies in their meanings, which have always been a significant topic of lexical semantic studies. “Lexical semantics is the development of traditional semantics and a branch of modern semantics” (Zhang Zhiyi & Zhang Qingyun, 2012: 9).