The most extreme thesaurus-style approaches hold that there are no definitions for words in the lexicon, as the meaning of a word can be derived from "the company it keeps" i.e. which other words it is linked to. The following subsections exem-plify these positiOns in turn, thoughit must be pointed out that many lexicologists take a middle grand, expecting that both definitional (dictionary), and relational (thesaurus) information is needed for a complete semantic representation of a lexeme