Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• I. Foundations of semantics
  • 1. Meaning in linguistics
  • 2. Meaning, intentionality and communication
  • 3. (Frege on) Sense and reference
  • 4. Reference: Foundational issues
  • 5. Meaning in language use
  • 6. Compositionality
  • 7. Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues
• II. History of semantics
  • 8. Meaning in pre-19th century thought
  • 9. The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century
  • 10. The influence of logic on semantics
  • 11. Formal semantics and representationalism
• III. Methods in semantic research
  • 12. Varieties of semantic evidence
  • 13. Methods in cross-linguistic semantics
  • 14. Formal methods in semantics
  • 15. The application of experimental methods in semantics
• IV. Lexical semantics
  • 16. Semantic features and primes
  • 17. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs
  • 18. Thematic roles
  • 19. Lexical Conceptual Structure
  • 20. Idioms and collocations
  • 21. Sense relations
  • 22. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning
• V. Ambiguity and vagueness
  • 23. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview
  • 24. Semantic underspecification
  • 25. Mismatches and coercion
  • 26. Metaphors and metonymies
• VI. Cognitively oriented approaches to semantics
  • 27. Cognitive Semantics: An overview
  • 28. Prototype theory
  • 29. Frame Semantics
  • 30. Conceptual Semantics
  • 31. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure
  • 32. Word meaning and world knowledge
• VII. Theories of sentence semantics
  • 33. Model-theoretic semantics
  • 34. Event semantics
  • 35. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language
• VIII. Theories of discourse semantics
  • 36. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction
  • 37. Discourse Representation Theory
  • 38. Dynamic semantics
  • 39. Rhetorical relations