Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods / Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Heusinger, Paul Portner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heusinger, Klaus von, Editor.

Maienborn, Claudia, Editor.

Portner, Paul, Editor.

Series:

Mouton reader.

Mouton Reader

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Meaning in linguistics

2 Meaning, intentionality and communication

3 (Frege on) Sense and reference

4 Reference: Foundational issues

5 Meaning in language use

6 Compositionality

7 Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues

8 Meaning in pre-19th century thought

9 The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century

10 The influence of logic on semantics

11 Formal semantics and representationalism

12 Varieties of semantic evidence

13 Methods in cross-linguistic semantics

14 Formal methods in semantics

15 The application of experimental methods in semantics

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110393347

3110393344

9783110368505

3110368501

OCLC:

1057240365