... and semantics has different levels accordingly. What I will be interested in is lexical semantics, which studies word meaning. In fact it also deals with items of different levels, i.e. morphemes, words themselves (or lexemes), and multi-word units, but here I'll also simplify it to only one level of lexemes. There are thousands of lexemes in each language, and it is completely wrong to think that they exist chaotically in the language; of course they are somehow organised. To think of them as a list organised in an alphabetic order is also misleading. There is no semantic reality in such organisation; it rather keeps related lexemes apart. So we can suppose that groups of lexemes are related in sense. Taking a closer look at the matter we may discover that there are two main kinds of sense relations between lexemes. "Some result from the way lexemes occur in sequences (syntagmatic relations); ...

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