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Author : Igor Mel'čuk,Jasmina Milićević
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108481625
Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking.
Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521851923
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author : Thomas Ede Zimmermann,Wolfgang Sternefeld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110314373
This textbook helps undergraduate students of language and linguistics taking their first steps in one of the core areas of grammar, introducing them to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. Requiring no special background knowledge, the book starts with everyday observations about word meaning and use and then hightlights the role of structure in the analysis of the meanings of phrases and clauses, zooming in on the fascinating and vexing question of how speakers manage to meaningfully communicate with sentences and texts they have never come across before. At the same time, the reader becomes acquainted with the modern, functionalist characterization of linguistic meaning in terms of reference (extension) and information (intension), and learns to apply technical tools from formal logic to analyzing the meaning of complex linguistic expressions as being composed by the meanings of their parts. Each of the nine main chapters contains a variety of exercises for self-study and classroom use, with model solutions in the appendix. Extensive English examples provide ample illustration.
Author : Paul R. Kroeger
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101368
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect. Most of the chapters include exercises which can be used for class discussion and/or homework assignments, and each chapter contains references for additional reading on the topics covered. As the title indicates, this book is truly an INTRODUCTION: it provides a solid foundation which will prepare students to take more advanced and specialized courses in semantics and/or pragmatics. It is also intended as a reference for fieldworkers doing primary research on under-documented languages, to help them write grammatical descriptions that deal carefully and clearly with semantic issues. The approach adopted here is largely descriptive and non-formal (or, in some places, semi-formal), although some basic logical notation is introduced. The book is written at level which should be appropriate for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students. It presupposes some previous coursework in linguistics, but does not presuppose any background in formal logic or set theory.
Author : Charles W. Kreidler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anglais (Langue) - Sémantique
ISBN : 9780415180641
Annotation Focusing on the English language, this comprehensive and accessible introduction to semantics explores how languages organize and express meaning through words, parts of words and sentences. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
Author : Daniel Altshuler,Terence Parsons,Roger Schwarzschild
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262042772
An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology. This introductory textbook in linguistic semantics for undergraduates features a unique balance between empirical coverage and formalism on the one hand and development of intuition and methodology on the other. It will equip students to form intuitions about a set of data, explain how well an analysis of the data accords with their intuitions, and extend the analysis or seek an alternative. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required. After mastering the material, students will be able to tackle some of the most difficult questions in the field even if they have never taken a linguistics course before. After introducing such concepts as truth conditions and compositionality, the book presents a basic symbolic logic with negation, conjunction, and generalized quantifiers, to serve as the basis for translation throughout the book. It then develops a detailed compositional semantics, covering quantification (scope and binding), adverbial modification, relative clauses, event semantics, tense and aspect, as well as pragmatic phenomena, notably deictic pronouns and narrative progression. A Course in Semantics offers a large and diverse set of exercises, interspersed throughout the text; those labeled “Important practice and looking ahead” prepare students for material to come; those labeled “Thinking about ” invite students to think beyond the content of the book.
Author : James R. Hurford,Brendan Heasley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521289491
Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
Author : Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262621002
Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate program in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist. Linguistic semantics cannot be studied as a stand-alone subject but only as part of cognitive psychology, the authors assert. It is the study of a particular human cognitive competence governing the meanings of words and phrases. Larson and Segal argue that speakers have unconscious knowledge of the semantic rules of their language, and they present concrete, empirically motivated proposals about a formal theory of this competence based on the work of Alfred Tarski and Donald Davidson. The theory is extended to a wide range of constructions occurring in natural language, including predicates, proper nouns, pronouns and demonstratives, quantifiers, definite descriptions, anaphoric expressions, clausal complements, and adverbs. Knowledge of Meaning gives equal weight to philosophical, empirical, and formal discussions. It addresses not only the empirical issues of linguistic semantics but also its fundamental conceptual questions, including the relation of truth to meaning and the methodology of semantic theorizing. Numerous exercises are included in the book.
Author : D. A. Cruse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199263066
A comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. Alan Cruse covers semantic matters, but also deals with topics that are usually considered to fall under pragmatics. A major aim is to highlight the richness and subtlety of meaning phenomena, rather than to expound any particular theory. Rich in examples and exercises, Meaning in Language provides an invaluable descriptive approach to this area of linguistics for undergraduates and postgraduates alike.
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199560288
A lively introduction to methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and revealing connections between language and culture. It shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful, and exciting.
Author : Thomas R. Hofmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317901129
Realms of Meaning presents an accessible introduction to semantics. It provides an understanding of the way meaning works in natural languages, against a background of how we communicate with language. Avoiding theoretical terminology and linguistic theories it concentrates instead on the analysis of meaning, and looks in depth at such subjects as opposites and negatives, modal verbs, prepositions and word meanings. Examples are chosen mainly from English to provide material for the wider discussion of the principles of the subject, but European, East Asian and other languages also provide illuminating examples.
Author : Henriëtte de Swart
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575861380
This introduction examines the semantics of natural languages.
Author : D. R. Dowty,R. Wall,S. Peters
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400990654
In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways the paper 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English' (commonly abbreviated PTQ) represents the culmination of Montague's efforts to apply the techniques developed within mathematical logic to the semantics of natural languages, and indeed it is the system outlined there that people generally have in mind when they refer to "Montague Grammar". (We prefer the term "Montague Semantics" inasmuch as a grammar, as conceived of in current linguistics, would contain at least a phonological component, a morphological component, and other subsystems which are either lacking entirely or present only in a very rudi mentary state in the PTQ system. ) Montague's work has attracted increasing attention in recent years among linguists and philosophers since it offers the hope that semantics can be characterized with the same formal rigor and explicitness that transformational approaches have brought to syntax. Whether this hope can be fully realized remains to be seen, but it is clear nonetheless that Montague semantics has already established itself as a productive para digm, leading to new areas of inquiry and suggesting new ways of conceiving of theories of natural language. Unfortunately, Montague's papers are tersely written and very difficult to follow unless one has a considerable background in logical semantics.
Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521438772
This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.
Author : Ronnie Cann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Semantics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
