Semantics. Volume 2 / John Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, John, 1932-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Semiotics.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, pages 374-897) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains substantial original material.

Contents:

Cover

SEMANTICS: Volume 2 JOHN LYONS

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Typographical conventions

Preface

Semantics and grammar I

10.1. Levels of analysis

10.2. Grammaticality

10.3. Generative grammar

10.4. Grammatical ambiguity

10.5. Generative semantics

Semantics and grammar II

11.1. Parts-of-speech, form-classes and expressionclasses

11.2. Subjects, predicates and predicators

11.3. The ontological basis: entities, qualities and actions

11.4. Determiners, quantifiers and classifiers

Semantics and grammar III

12.1. Kernel-sentences and sentence-nuclei

12.2. Predicative structures

12.3. Locative subjects

12.4. Valency

12.5. Causativity and transitivity

12.6. Participant-roles and circumstantial roles

12.7. Theme, rheme and focus

The Lexicon

13.1. Lexical entries

13.2. Complex lexemes

13.3. Compound lexemes

13.4. Homonymy and polysemy

Context, style and culture

14.1. The context-of-utterance

14.2. Communicative competence

14.3. Conversational implicatures and presupposition

14.4. The contextual theory of meaning

14.5. Stylistic, dialectal and diachronic variation

14.6. Sentences and texts

Deixis, space and time

15.1. Person-deixis

15.2. Demonstratives and the definite article

15.3. Deixis, anaphora and the universe-of-discourse

15.4. Tense and deictic temporal reference

15.5. Spatial expressions

15.6. Aspect

15.7. Localism

Mood and illocutionary force

16.1. Speech-acts

16.2. Commands, requests and demands

16.3. Questions

16.4. Negation

16.5. The performative analysis of sentences

Modality

17.1. Necessity and possibility

17.2. Epistemic modality and factivity

17.3. Tense as a modality

17.4. Deontic modality

17.5. Obligation, permission, prohibition and exemption.

17.6. A tentative synthesis

Bibliography

Index of subjects

Index of personal names.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-511-99506-7

1-316-03874-2

0-511-62061-6

OCLC:

879631488