Semantics : a reader /

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Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 921 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subject:
Semantics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Semantics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142551
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Other authors / contributors:Davis, Steven, 1937-
Gillon, Brendan S.
ISBN:1423760859
9781423760856
1280473657
9781280473654
9780195136975
0195136977
9780195136982
0195136985
1433700891
9781433700897
9786610473656
661047365X
0195136977
0195136985
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 867-898) and index.
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Summary:In this selection of published articles in the area of semantics, Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon try to obtain a representative coverage of topics, approaches, and recognized authors; while choosing articles which have made an important contribution to the field and are accessible to students as well as scholars. The volume will have appeal as a textbook for upper level courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics, phonology, and philosophy of language. Semantics: A Reader may serve as a companion to Davis's: Pragmatics: A Reader.
Other form:Print version: Semantics. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195136977 0195136985
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Part I. Introduction Steven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Linguistics and Typology
  • 3. Linguistics and Logic
  • 4. Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning
  • 5. Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories
  • 6. Semantics and Context
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 8. Appendix
  • Part II. Background
  • 9. The Principle of Semantic Compositionality
  • 10. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory
  • Part III. Approaches
  • 11. General Semantics
  • 12. Truth and Meaning
  • 13. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
  • 14. Dynamic Predicate Logic
  • 15. Situations and Attitudes
  • 16. What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?
  • 17. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration
  • Part IV. Topics
  • 18. The Generative Lexicon
  • 19. Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns
  • 20. Reference and Proper Names
  • 21. Pronouns
  • 22. Pronouns and Bound Variables
  • 23. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
  • 24. The Tenses of Verbs
  • 25. Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
  • 26. Two Theories about Adjectives
  • 27. Prepositions and Points of View
  • 28. On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs
  • 29. A Semantic Theory of Adverbs
  • 30. Adverbs of Quantification
  • 31. Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language
  • 32. A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination
  • 33. The Means of Connectives
  • 34. Interrogatives
  • 35. Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics
  • 36. The Logical Form of Action Sentences
  • Part V. Context Dependency
  • 37. Demonstratives
  • 38. Truth and Demonstratives
  • 39. Scorekeeping in a Language Game
  • 40. Explicature and Semantics
  • 41. Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness ""in Isolation,"" and Ellipsis
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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