Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

In: Mouton Reader

Edited by: Klaus Heusinger , Claudia Maienborn and Paul Portner

De Gruyter Mouton | 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368505

Overview
Contents

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 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)

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

(Deutsch)

Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

Details

Formats