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Semantics: A Reader

Semantics: A Reader


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In this selection of published articles in the area of semantics, Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon try to obtain a representative coverage of topics, approaches, and recognized authors; while choosing articles which have made an important contribution to the field and are accessible to students as well as scholars. The volume will have appeal as a textbook for upper level courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics, phonology, and philosophy of language. Semantics: A Reader may serve as a companion to Davis's: Pragmatics: A Reader.

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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"The volume will be of great use for anyone working in semantics. I recommend also its use for teaching purposes, for it contains the most important illustrations of virtually all the topics one may want to address in a course in semantics."--Linguist List 16.1589 "The volume will be of great use for anyone working in semantics. I recommend also its use for teaching purposes, for it contains the most important illustrations of virtually all the topics one may want to address in a course in semantics."--Linguist List 16.1589


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  • ISBN-13: 9780195136982
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 178 mm
  • No of Pages: 936
  • Sub Title: A Reader
  • Width: 251 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0195136985
  • Publisher Date: 09 Dec 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 48 mm
  • Weight: 1596 gr


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