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Semantics: A Reader contains a broad selection of classic articles on semantics and the semantics/pragmatics interface. Comprehensive in the variety and breadth of theoretical frameworks and topics that it covers, it includes articles representative of the major theoretical frameworks within semantics, including: discourse representation theory, dynamic predicate logic, truth theoretic semantics, event semantics, situation semantics, and cognitive semantics. All the major topics in semantics are covered, including lexical semantics and the semantics of quantified noun phrases, adverbs, adjectives, performatives, and interrogatives. Included are classic papers in the field of semantics as well as papers written especially for the volume. The volume comes with an extensive introduction designed not only to provide an overview of the field, but also to explain the technical concepts the beginner will need to tackle before the more demanding articles. Semantics will have appeal as a textbook for upper level and graduate courses and as a reference for scholars of semantics who want the classic articles in their field in one convenient place.

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Author:   Steven Davis (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University) ,  Brendan S. Gillon (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, McGill University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 25.10cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   1.596kg
ISBN:  

9780195136982

ISBN 10:   0195136985
Pages:   936
Publication Date:   09 December 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors Part I. IntroductionSteven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon: 1: Preliminaries 2: Linguistics and Typology 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 Part II. Background 9: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: The Principle of Semantic Compositionality 10: Brendan S. Gillon : Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory Part III. Approaches 11: David Lewis: General Semantics 12: Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning 13: Hans Kamp: A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation 14: Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof: Dynamic Predicate Logic 15: Jon Barwise and John Perry: Situations and Attitudes 16: Ray Jackendoff: What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It? 17: Gilles Fauconnier : Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration Part IV. Topics 18: James Pustejovsky: The Generative Lexicon 19: Brendan S. Gillon: Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns 20: Tyler Burge: Reference and Proper Names 21: Gareth Evans: Pronouns 22: James Higginbotham: Pronouns and Bound Variables 23: Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper: Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language 24: Hans Reichenbach: The Tenses of Verbs 25: Barbara Hall Partee: Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English 26: J. A. W. (Hans) Kamp: Two Theories about Adjectives 27: Max J. Cresswell: Prepositions and Points of View 28: Irena Bellert: On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs 29: Richmond H. Thomason and Robert C. Stalnaker: A Semantic Theory of Adverbs 30: David Lewis: Adverbs of Quantification 31: Roland Posner: Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language 32: Gerald Gazdar: A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination 33: R. E. (Ray) Jennings: The Means of Connectives 34: James Higginbotham: Interrogatives 35: Daniel Vanderveken: Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics 36: Donald Davidson : The Logical Form of Action Sentences Part V. Context Dependency 37: David Kaplan: Demonstratives 38: Scott Weinstein: Truth and Demonstratives 39: David Lewis: Scorekeeping in a Language Game 40: Robyn Carston: Explicature and Semantics 41: Robert J. Stainton: Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness in Isolation, and Ellipsis Bibliography Index

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...a fine collection of classic and brand-new papers... * The Year's Work in English Studies *

...a fine collection of classic and brand-new papers... The Year's Work in English Studies

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Steven Davis is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre on Values and Ethics at Carleton University and Brendan S. Gillon is Associate Professor uf Linguistics at McGill University.

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