Semantics: theories

by Heusinger, Klaus von Maienborn, Claudia Portner, Paul

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"Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics…

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Full title :Semantics : theories / edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner.

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Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

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"This volume is part of a larger set of handbooks to Semantics."

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Description:1 online resource (vi, 443 pages)

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ISBN:3110589249, 9783110589245, 9783110587142, 3110587149
oclc:on1056201302
LC Classification:P325
Dewey Decimal:401/.43

Intro; Contents; 1. Cognitive Semantics: An overview; 2. Prototype theory; 3. Frame Semantics; 4. Conceptual Semantics; 5. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure; 6. Word meaning and world knowledge; 7. Model-theoretic semantics; 8. Event semantics; 9. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language; 10. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction; 11. Discourse Representation Theory; 12. Dynamic semantics; 13. Rhetorical relations; Index