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9780195136982

Semantics A Reader

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    9780195136982

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    0195136985

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-11-18
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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 withinsemantics, 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 volumecomes 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 referencefor scholars of semantics who want the classic articles in their field in one convenient place.

Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
I. Introduction
Steven Davis
Brendan S. Gillon
Preliminaries
3(6)
Linguistics and Psychology
9(13)
Linguistics and Logic
22(47)
Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning
69(23)
Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories
92(9)
Semantics and Context
101(6)
Conclusion
107(4)
Appendix
111(22)
II. Background
The Principle of Semantic Compositionality
133(24)
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory
157(34)
Brendan S. Gillon
III. Approaches
General Semantics
191(31)
David Lewis
Truth and Meaning
222(12)
Donald Davidson
A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
234(29)
Hans Kamp
Dynamic Predicate Logic
263(42)
Jeroen Groenendijk
Martin Stokhof
Situations and Attitudes
305(17)
Jon Barwise
John Perry
What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?
322(24)
Ray Jackendoff
Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration
346(23)
Gilles Fauconnier
IV. Topics
The Generative Lexicon
369(25)
James Pustejovsky
Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns
394(30)
Brendan S. Gillon
Reference and Proper Names
424(11)
Tyler Burge
Pronouns
435(21)
Gareth Evans
Pronouns and Bound Variables
456(26)
James Higginbotham
Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
482(44)
Jon Barwise
Robin Cooper
The Tenses of Verbs
526(8)
Hans Reichenbach
Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
534(7)
Barbara Hall Partee
Two Theories about Adjectives
541(22)
J. A. W. (Hans) Kamp
Prepositions and Points of View
563(30)
Max J. Cresswell
On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs
593(12)
Irena Bellert
A Semantic Theory of Adverbs
605(21)
Richmond H. Thomason
Robert C. Stalnaker
Adverbs of Quantification
626(10)
David Lewis
Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language
636(23)
Roland Posner
A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination
659(3)
Gerald Gazdar
The Meaning of Connectives
662(25)
R. E. (Ray) Jennings
Interrogatives
687(23)
James Higginbotham
Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics
710(25)
Daniel Vanderveken
The Logical Form of Action Sentences
735(14)
Donald Davidson
V. Context Dependency
Demonstratives
749(50)
David Kaplan
Truth and Demonstratives
799(4)
Scott Weinstein
Scorekeeping in a Language Game
803(14)
David Lewis
Explicature and Semantics
817(29)
Robyn Carston
Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness ``in Isolation,'' and Ellipsis
846(21)
Robert J. Stainton
Bibliography 867(32)
Index 899

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