Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2019

Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

Edited by: Klaus von Heusinger , Claudia Maienborn and Paul Portner

In the series Mouton Reader

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368505

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About this book

Get to grips with the fundamentals of semantics research. Written by a team of world-class experts, this book introduces the subject for a broad audience of linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists. It explores the core concepts of sentential semantics and includes sections on questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also features essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this modern classic is an ideal resource for anyone involved in semantics research.

state of the art in linguistic semantics
great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field
for the first time available as paperbacks

Author / Editor information

Claudia Maienborn, Tübingen, Germany; Klaus von Heusinger, Köln, Germany; Paul Portner, Washington D.C., USA.

Reviews

"It’s great news that this outstanding Handbook of Semantics is appearing in paperback, now accessible to individuals as well as to libraries. The Handbook is a masterful achievement, both broad and deep -- it has almost every topic you might want to learn about, in articles generally written by the people you would most want to learn from. A lasting reference work of the highest quality."

(Barbara H Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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1 Meaning in linguistics Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Meaning, intentionality and communication Pierre Jacob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3 (Frege on) Sense and reference Mark Textor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 Reference: Foundational issues Barbara Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5 Meaning in language use Georgia M. Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
6 Compositionality Peter Pagin and Dag Westerståhl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
7 Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues Stefan Engelberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
8 Meaning in pre-19th century thought Stephan Meier-Oeser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
9 The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century Brigitte Nerlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
10 The influence of logic on semantics Albert Newen and Bernhard Schröder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
11 Formal semantics and representationalism Ruth Kempson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
12 Varieties of semantic evidence Manfred Krifka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
13 Methods in cross-linguistic semantics Lisa Matthewson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
14 Formal methods in semantics Alice G.B. ter Meulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
15 The application of experimental methods in semantics Oliver Bott, Sam Featherston, Janina Radó and Britta Stolterfoht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students, Researchers, Practitioners, General Readers
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 411
Keywords: Semantics; Linguistic Theories; Generative and Cognitive Linguistics

eBook

Published: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9783110368505

Paperback

Published: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9783110373738