Semantics : a reader / edited by Steven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Steven, 1937- editor.

Gillon, Brendan S., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (936 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of articles on semantics. The authors try to strike a balance: to obtain a representative coverage of topics, approaches, and recognized authors; and to choose articles which have made an important contribution to the field and are accessible to students and scholars.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; I. Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Linguistics and Psychology; 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; II. Background; 9. The Principle of Semantic Compositionality; 10. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory; 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; 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 Meaning 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; 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

AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 867-898) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772237-7

1-280-47365-7

1-4237-6085-9

0-19-803133-5

1-4337-0089-1

OCLC:

171560393