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Semantics

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saeed, John I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1996.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Series
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Part I Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1 Semantics in Linguistics
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Semantics and Semiotics
  • 1.3 Three Challenges in Doing Semantics
  • 1.4 Meeting the Challenges
  • 1.5 Semantics in a Model of Grammar
  • 1.6 Some Important Assumptions
  • 1.7 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Meaning, Thought, and Reality
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Reference
  • 2.3 Reference as a Theory of Meaning
  • 2.4 Mental Representations
  • 2.5 Words, Concepts, and Thinking
  • 2.6 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II Semantic Description
  • Chapter 3 Word Meaning
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Words and Grammatical Categories
  • 3.3 Words and Lexical Items
  • 3.4 Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning
  • 3.5 Lexical Relations
  • 3.6 Derivational Relations
  • 3.7 Lexical Typology
  • 3.8 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Sentence Relations and Truth
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Logic and Truth
  • 4.3 Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth, and Analyticity
  • 4.4 Entailment
  • 4.5 Presupposition
  • 4.6 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Sentence Semantics 1: Situations
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Classifying Situations
  • 5.3 Modality and Evidentiality
  • 5.4 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Sentence Semantics 2: Participants
  • 6.1 Introduction: Classifying Participants
  • 6.2 Thematic Roles
  • 6.3 Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles
  • 6.4 Verbs and Thematic Role Grids
  • 6.5 Problems with Thematic Roles
  • 6.6 The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles
  • 6.7 Causation
  • 6.8 Voice
  • 6.9 Classifiers and Noun Classes
  • 6.10 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Context and Inference
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Deixis
  • 7.3 Reference and Context
  • 7.4 Knowledge as Context
  • 7.5 Information Structure
  • 7.6 Inference
  • 7.7 Conversational Implicature
  • 7.8 Lexical Pragmatics
  • 7.9 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Functions of Language: Speech as Action
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Austin's Speech Act Theory
  • 8.3 Categorizing Speech Acts
  • 8.4 Indirect Speech Acts
  • 8.5 Sentence Types
  • 8.6 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part III Theoretical Approaches
  • Chapter 9 Meaning Components
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Lexical Relations in CA
  • 9.3 Katz's Semantic Theory
  • 9.4 Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components
  • 9.5 Talmy's Typology of Motion Events
  • 9.6 Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure
  • 9.7 Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon
  • 9.8 Problems with Components of Meaning
  • 9.9 Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 10 Formal Semantics
  • 10.1 Introduction