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1. What is lexical semantics ?

Lexical semantics is the branch of morphology which studies meaning.


The meaning of words, suffixes and preffixes
2. What is reflected meaning ?
Reflected meaning refers to the situation when one sense of a word is part of the spekers response
to another sense- Tjos happens in cases of multiple conceptual meaning of words. Dear can mean
expensive but also beloved so that one can use the meaning of expensive and allude to the
meaning of beloved. The meaning that is more frequent or more familiar has dominant suggestive
power.

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