Semantics.

Intro -- Series -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Part I Preliminaries -- Chapter 1 Semantics in Linguistics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Semantics and Semiotics -- 1.3 Three Challenges in Doing Semantics -- 1.4 Meeting the Challenges -- 1.5 Semantics in a Model of Grammar -- 1.6 Some Important Assumptions -- 1.7 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Meaning, Thought, and Reality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Reference -- 2.3 Reference as a Theory of Meaning -- 2.4 Mental Representations -- 2.5 Words, Concepts, and Thinking -- 2.6 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Part II Semantic Description -- Chapter 3 Word Meaning -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Words and Grammatical Categories -- 3.3 Words and Lexical Items -- 3.4 Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning -- 3.5 Lexical Relations -- 3.6 Derivational Relations -- 3.7 Lexical Typology -- 3.8 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Sentence Relations and Truth -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Logic and Truth -- 4.3 Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth, and Analyticity -- 4.4 Entailment -- 4.5 Presupposition -- 4.6 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Sentence Semantics 1: Situations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Classifying Situations -- 5.3 Modality and Evidentiality -- 5.4 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Sentence Semantics 2: Participants -- 6.1 Introduction: Classifying Participants -- 6.2 Thematic Roles -- 6.3 Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles -- 6.4 Verbs and Thematic Role Grids -- 6.5 Problems with Thematic Roles -- 6.6 The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles -- 6.7 Causation -- 6.8 Voice -- 6.9 Classifiers and Noun Classes -- 6.10 Summary -- Exercises.

Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Context and Inference -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Deixis -- 7.3 Reference and Context -- 7.4 Knowledge as Context -- 7.5 Information Structure -- 7.6 Inference -- 7.7 Conversational Implicature -- 7.8 Lexical Pragmatics -- 7.9 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Functions of Language: Speech as Action -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Austin's Speech Act Theory -- 8.3 Categorizing Speech Acts -- 8.4 Indirect Speech Acts -- 8.5 Sentence Types -- 8.6 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Part III Theoretical Approaches -- Chapter 9 Meaning Components -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Lexical Relations in CA -- 9.3 Katz's Semantic Theory -- 9.4 Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components -- 9.5 Talmy's Typology of Motion Events -- 9.6 Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure -- 9.7 Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon -- 9.8 Problems with Components of Meaning -- 9.9 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Formal Semantics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Model-Theoretical Semantics -- 10.3 Translating English into a Logical Metalanguage -- 10.4 The Semantics of the Logical Metalanguage -- 10.5 Checking the Truth-Value of Sentences -- 10.6 Word Meaning: Meaning Postulates -- 10.7 Natural Language Quantifiers and Higher-Order Logic -- 10.8 Intensionality -- 10.9 Dynamic Approaches to Discourse -- 10.10 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Cognitive Semantics -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Categorization -- 11.3 Polysemy -- 11.4 Metaphor -- 11.5 Metonymy -- 11.6 Mental Spaces -- 11.7 Langacker's Cognitive Grammar -- 11.8 Construction Grammar -- 11.9 Summary -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Solutions to Exercises -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4.

Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- References -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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