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Semantics : A Reader.
Title:
Semantics : A Reader.
Author:
Davis, Steven.
ISBN:
9781433700897
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (936 pages)
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 -- A.

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Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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