Semantics : an international handbook of natural language meaning. Volume 1 /

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Other Authors: Maienborn, Claudia, Heusinger, Klaus von, Portner, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011.
Series:Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Bd. 33.1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. Foundations of semantics
  • 1. Meaning in linguistics / Maienborn, Claudia / Heusinger, Klaus von / Portner, Paul
  • 2. Meaning, intentionality and communication / Jacob, Pierre
  • 3. (Frege on) Sense and reference / Textor, Mark
  • 4. Reference: Foundational issues / Abbott, Barbara
  • 5. Meaning in language use / Green, Georgia M.
  • 6. Compositionality / Pagin, Peter / Westerståhl, Dag
  • 7. Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues / Engelberg, Stefan
  • II. History of semantics
  • 8. Meaning in pre-19th century thought / Meier-Oeser, Stephan
  • 9. The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century / Nerlich, Brigitte
  • 10. The influence of logic on semantics / Newen, Albert / Schröder, Bernhard
  • 11. Formal semantics and representationalism / Kempson, Ruth
  • III. Methods in semantic research
  • 12. Varieties of semantic evidence / Krifka, Manfred
  • 13. Methods in cross-linguistic semantics / Matthewson, Lisa
  • 14. Formal methods in semantics / Meulen, Alice G.B. ter
  • 15. The application of experimental methods in semantics / Bott, Oliver / Featherston, Sam / Radó, Janina / Stolterfoht, Britta
  • IV. Lexical semantics
  • 16. Semantic features and primes / Bierwisch, Manfred
  • 17. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs / Engelberg, Stefan
  • 18. Thematic roles / Davis, Anthony R.
  • 19. Lexical Conceptual Structure / Levin, Beth / Rappaport Hovav, Malka
  • 20. Idioms and collocations / Fellbaum, Christiane
  • 21. Sense relations / Cann, Ronnie
  • 22. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning / Löbner, Sebastian
  • V. Ambiguity and vagueness
  • 23. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview / Kennedy, Christopher
  • 24. Semantic underspecification / Egg, Markus
  • 25. Mismatches and coercion / Swart, Henriëtte de
  • 26. Metaphors and metonymies / Tyler, Andrea / Takahashi, Hiroshi
  • VI. Cognitively oriented approaches to semantics
  • 27. Cognitive Semantics: An overview / Talmy, Leonard
  • 28. Prototype theory / Taylor, John R.
  • 29. Frame Semantics / Gawron, Jean-Mark
  • 30. Conceptual Semantics / Jackendoff, Ray
  • 31. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure / Lang, Ewald / Maienborn, Claudia
  • 32. Word meaning and world knowledge / Hobbs, Jerry R.
  • VII. Theories of sentence semantics
  • 33. Model-theoretic semantics / Zimmermann, Thomas Ede
  • 34. Event semantics / Maienborn, Claudia
  • 35. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language / Ginzburg, Jonathan
  • VIII. Theories of discourse semantics
  • 36. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction / Ginzburg, Jonathan
  • 37. Discourse Representation Theory / Kam, Hans / Reyle, Uwe
  • 38. Dynamic semantics / Dekker, Paul
  • 39. Rhetorical relations / Zeevat, Henk