This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to create meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed by Thumboo as the basis for his unique technique.
Introduction.- Previous Researches on Lexical Ambiguity and Polysemy.- Lexical Knowledge Base and Corpus.- Corpus-based and Computational Analysis.- Evaluation in Chinese Wordnet and Xiandai Hanyu Cidian.- Experimental Evaluation.- Comparison between Corpus-based and Computational with Experimental Determination.- Conclusion.