Introduction to Semantics : an Essential Guide to the Composition of Meaning
This textbook helps undergraduate students of language and linguistics taking their first steps in one of the core areas of grammar, introducing them to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. Requiring no special background knowledge, the book starts with everyday...
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013
Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013 Berlin ; Boston : [2013] |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1 Literal Meaning; 1 Hidden Sense; 2 Irony and Implicature; 3 The Way You Say It; 4 Difficult Sentences; 2 Lexical Semantics; 1 What's in a Word?; 2 Homonymy and Polysemy; 3 Sense Relations; 4 Semantic Networks; 3 Structural Ambiguity; 1 Some Elementary Examples; 2 Scope and Syntactic Domains; 3 Syntactic Domains and Reconstruction; 4 Logical Form; 4.1 The LF Scope Principle; 4.2 Quantifier Raising; 4.3 Opaque and Transparent Readings; 4.4 More Hidden Structure*; Summary; 4 Introducing Extensions; 1 Frege's Principle; 2 A Farewell to Psychologism; 3 Extensions for Words and Phrases
- 3 Intensions and Sense Relations4 Compositional vs. Lexical Semantics; 5 Hintikka's Attitudes; 6 From Intension to Extension and Back Again; 7 Tense, Time, and Logic*; 9 Presuppositions; 1 The Definite Article; 2 More on Entailments and Truth Value Gaps; 3 Presupposition and Assertion; 4 Presupposition and Discourse; 5 Accommodation; 6 Presupposition Projection*; 10 Compositional Variable Binding*; 1 The Problem; 2 Assignments; 3 Interpreting Variable Binding; 4 Compositionality; 5 Predicate Logic; 5.1 Basic Definitions; 5.2 Some Variants and Alternatives
- 3.1 Referential Expressions3.2 Common Nouns; 3.3 Functional Nouns; 3.4 Verbs and Verb Phrases; 4 Truth Values as Extensions of Sentences; 5 Thematic Roles; 5 Composing Extensions; 1 Truth Tables; 2 Referential Subjects and Objects; 3 Sets and Set-Theoretic Notation; 4 Referential Arguments and Functional Nouns; 5 Analyzing Structural Ambiguities; 5.1 Logical Connectives: and and or; 5.2 Nominal Modification; 5.3 Calculating an Attachment Ambiguity; 5.4 Plural NPs*; 6 Quantifiers; 1 Determiners and Quantifiers; 2 Names as Quantifiers; 3 Type-Driven Interpretation
- 4 Quantifying DPs in Object Position*4.1 Solution 1: Quantifier Raising; 4.2 Solution 2: In Situ Interpretation; 4.3 Discussion; 5 The Verb to be; 7 Propositions; 1 Intensional Contexts; 2 Cases and Propositions; 3 Logical Space; 4 Propositional Logic as the Logic of Propositions; 4.1 Venn Diagrams and Truth Tables; 4.2 Logical Connectives Revisited; 4.3 Material Implication and Valid Inferences; 5 Limits and Limitations of Propositional Logic; 5.1 Beyond Truth Functionality; 5.2 Exclusive or; 5.3 Non-Clausal Connectives; 8 Intensions; 1 From Propositions to Intensions; 2 Composing Intensions
- 5.3 Predicate Logic and Compositionality5.4 Validity, Logical Equivalence, and Entailment; 6 The Lambda Operator; 6.1 Predicate Logic with Lambda Terms; 6.2 Beyond Predicate Logic; Solutions to the Exercises; References; Index