Well before I turned pro linguist, words were my life. In my career I have been not just a word consumer (or word processor) but a periodic donor, a supplier of lexical utensils for the semanticist's arsenal. My proposed coinages have experienced varying degrees of success and ignominy within several overlapping areas of the field—the “Border Wars” between semantics and pragmatics, the nature of negation and polarity, and the exploration of lexical pragmatics, where context and speakers’ intentions and beliefs inform the lexicon in domains from word formation to the etymological urban legend. The coinages on display here are intended to trace my half-century journey through the vibrant (if motley) landscape of meaning and to show how the pursuit of linguistic byways can not only inform but delight. The article concludes with a chronology of landmark events and people that have shaped my thoughts about words and meanings.

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Edgewise中的单词

在我转为语言专家之前，语言就是我的生活。在我的职业生涯中，我不仅是文字消费者（或文字处理者），而且还是定期的捐赠者，是语义学家武器库的词汇用具供应商。我提出的造币在该领域的几个重叠领域中经历了不同程度的成功与否定-语义与语用之间的“边界战争”，否定与极性的性质以及词汇语用的探索，其中语境和说话者的意图和信念在词汇形成到词源性城市传说等领域中为词典提供了信息。这里展示的硬币旨在追溯我半个世纪穿越充满活力（如果是杂色无常）的意义景观的旅程，并展示对语言小路的追求如何不仅可以使人高兴，而且可以使人高兴。