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An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thorough investigation of issues and phenomena central to the development of modern semantics and its interfaces. Presenting in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book investigates competing analyses and approaches, examines their conceptual foundations, and evaluates them as applied to various languages. This authoritative collection enables scholars and students of semantics—as well as those from associated areas of linguistics such as syntacticians—to broaden and deepen their knowledge of the subject and the developments in the field. Presenting over 100 case studies, the collection of chapters within this Companion is organized in alphabetical order for ease of reference. This key reference work: Provides detailed coverage of the major developments in linguistic semantics over the past several decades Demonstrates how research can identify differences and similarities in a variety of languages Presents studies that encompass well-delimited empirical areas and play important roles in theoretical debates Identifies topics via famous example sentences The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics is a valuable reference work for scholars, researchers, academics, and students in linguistics and related areas. This work is also available as an online resource at www.companiontosemantics.com

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Author:   Daniel Gutzmann ,  Lisa Matthewson ,  Cecile Meier ,  Hotze Rullmann
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 26.40cm , Length: 32.00cm
Weight:   7.326kg
ISBN:  

9781118788318

ISBN 10:   1118788311
Pages:   3360
Publication Date:   17 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Actuality Entailments Valentine Hacquard Ambiguity Massimo Poesio Anankastic conditionals Kjell Johan Sæbø Aspectual composition: Drinking (a glass of) milk Markus Egg Attitude Verbs Hazel Pearson Bare singulars Alan Munn & Cristina Schmitt Biscuit conditionals Kyle Rawlins Boolean and non-Boolean conjunction Viola Schmitt Clausal vs. phrasal comparatives Winfried Lechner Complex Demonstratives Geoff Georgi Compositionality Michael Johnson Concealed Questions Ilaria Frana Conceptual spaces and semantic similarities of colors Gerhard Jäger Context and Conversation Mitchell Green Copular Sentences Caroline Heycock Correlatives Jo-Wang Lin Count nouns vs. Mass nouns Susan Rothstein Counterfactuals Ana Arregui Definiteness Cécile Meier Dimensions of meaning Daniel Gutzmann Discourse particles Patrick G. Grosz Distributivity, Collectivity, and Cumulativity Lucas Champollion Donkey Anaphora Adrian Brasoveanu & Jakub Dotlacil Ellipsis and Identity Daniel Hardt Epistemic Modality Igor Yanovich E-Type Pronouns Rick Nouwen Evaluative Predicates beyond fun and tasty Carla Umbach Evidentials Sarah Murray Exclamatives Elena Castroviejo Expressives Elin McCready Family Resemblance and Prototypes Galit Sassoon Free choice disjunction Marie-Christine Meyer Free Choice Items and Modal Indefinites ""Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Paula Menéndez-Benito"" Free Relatives Radek Šimík Gradable adjectives and degree expressions Marcin Morzycki Graded Modality Daniel Lassiter Idioms Manfred Sailer Imperatives Magda Kaumann Imperfectivity Ashwini Deo Indefinite-interrogative affinity Edgar Onea Index-Dependence and Embedding Orin Percus Indexicality Isidora Stojanovic Indicative Conditionals Katrin Schulz & Robert van Rooij Information Structure Beáta Gyuris Intensional Transitive Verbs Florian Schwarz Intentional Identity Robert van Rooij Intervention effects Clemens Steiner-Mayr Inverse linking constructions Malte Zimmermann Kinds of (Non)Specificity ""Donka F. Farkas & Adrian Brasoveanu"" Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Hana Filip Lexical decomposition Irene Rapp & Arnim von Stechow Linguistic relativity: From Whorf to now Jürgen Bohnemeyer Literal vs enriched meaning Paul Elbourne Logical Omniscience Paul Egré Matrix and embedded presuppositions: projection, accommodation, cancellation, and ambiguities Raj Singh Measure phrases Greg Scontras Mixed Quotation Emar Maier Modal concord Janneke van Wijnbergen-Huitink Modal Subordination: It would eat you first! Craige Roberts Modal-Temporal Interactions ""Anamaria Falaus & Brenda Laca"" Modified Numerals Benjamin Spector Negative Indefinites and negative concord Doris Penka Negative polarity Vincent Homer Nominal vs. Adverbial Quantification Stefan Hinterwimmer Nominalizations: The Case of Nominalizations of Modal Predicates Friederike Moltmann Nonlocal adjectival modification Bernhard Schwarz Non-restrictive nominal modification Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen Noun Incorporation ""Sandra Chung & William A. Ladusaw"" Pluractionality Ana Müller + Luciana Sanchez-Mendes Possible Worlds Semantics for Pictures Dorit Abusch Pragmatic Accommodation ""Mikhail Kissine & Myrto Pantazi"" Presuppositional Binding Rob van der Sandt Progressive: The Imperfective paradox Alessandro Zucchi Prosodic focus Michael Wagner Quantifiers, Scope, and Pseudo-Scope Wolfgang Sternefeld Quantity Implicatures Uli Sauerland + Andreea Nicolae ""Questions and interrogatives, exhaustivity vs. quantificational variability"" Paul Hagstrom Representing Intensionality Thomas Ede Zimmermann Rhetorical Relations ""Katja Jasinskaja & Elena Karagjosova"" Semantic Change Dirk Geeraerts Semantic Parameters and Universals Sigrid Beck Semantics of English intonation: A leopard? A leopard! Hubert Truckenbrodt Semantics vs. Pragmatics Daniel Gutzmann Sequence of Tense Yael Sharvit Spatial prepositions and locatives in formal semantics Marcus Kracht Speaker’s Reference Barbara Abbott Strong and Weak Nominals Louise McNally Systematic Polysemy Johannes Dölling Temporal Properties of Noun Phrases Judith Tonhauser Tense and Temporal Adverbs Daniel Altshuler The Interpretation of Tense ""Toshiyuki Ogihara & Kiyomi Kusumoto"" The Linguistic and Philosophical Status of ‘Impossible Words’ John Collins The Name and Nature of Neg-Raising Jon Robert Gajewski The Parameters of Indirect Speech Regine Eckardt The Partee Paradox Sebastian Löbner The Perfect Atle Grønn & Arnim von Stechow The Semantics and Pragmatics of Appositives Philippe Schlenker The subjunctive Josep Quer Topic Satoshi Tomioka Type Shifting: The Partee Triangle Herman Hendriks Vagueness and Natural Language Semantics ""Heather Burnett & Peter Sutton"" Weak necessity Aynat Rubinstein Wide Scope Indefinites Cornelia Ebert"

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Daniel Gutzmann is Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests are semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. He is the author of Use-Conditional Meaning (2015) and The Grammar of Expressivity (2019), as well as co-editor of Beyond Expressives (2013), Approaches to Meaning: Composition, Values, and Interpretation (2014), and Secondary Content (2019). Lisa Matthewson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests center on semantic variation and universals. She is co-editor of Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork (2015) and editor of Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2008) and is author of When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws: A Grammatical Analysis of St'át'imcets Oral Narratives (2005) and Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from Salish (1998). Cécile Meier is Senior Lecturer at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. She has worked on the interpretation of adjectives and comparison constructions and on definiteness. She is a co-editor of Approaches to Meaning: Composition, Values, and Interpretation (2014) and Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism (2016). Hotze Rullmann is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items (2001) and has published on a variety of topics in semantics, including questions, comparatives, negative polarity, focus particles, modality, and the interaction of modals with tense and aspect. Thomas Ede Zimmermann is Professor of Formal Semantics at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. His main research interests include descriptive compositional semantics, the logical foundations of semantics, and philosophy of language. In addition to his book publications, which include the co-authored Introduction to Semantics (2013), he has also published more than 50 research papers and is former editor of the Linguistics and Philosophy journal.

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