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From Etymology to Pragmatics : Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Stucture
Eve E. Sweetser
Paperback - $78.95
This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's ...
Semantics Versus Pragmatics
Zoltan Gendler Szabo
Hardcover - $366.95
Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either dis ...
Truth and Meaning
Kenneth N. Taylor
Paperback - $80.95
This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a self-contained introduction to the elements and key issues of the philosophy of language. In particular, it focuses on the philosophical foundations of semantics, including the main challenges to and p ...
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
C. L. Tenny
Paperback - $136.95
This book presents a theory of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax, in which aspect plays a central role. The aspectual properties that figure in the linking between syntax and semantics are expressed through aspectual roles', assigned ...
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Carol Tenny
Hardcover - $297.95
This book presents a theory of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax, in which aspect plays a central role. The aspectual properties that figure in the linking between syntax and semantics are expressed through aspectual roles', assigned ...
Regularity in Semantic Change
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Paperback - $82.95
This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive resear ...
The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface S.)
K. Turner
Hardcover - $257.95
This volume examines explicitly the question of how the semantics and pragmatics of a number of expressions might be responsibly discussed. In the past, the temptation has been for the expressions in question to be discussed either in terms of the se ...
Language in Action : Categories, Lambdas, and Dynamic Logic
Johan Van Benthem
Paperback - $76.95
Language in Action demonstrates the viability of mathematical research into the foundations of categorial grammar, a topic at the border between logic and linguistics. Since its initial publication, it has become the classic work in the foundations o ...
Perspectives on Aspect
Henk Verkuyl
Paperback - $113.95
The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the deve ...
Existence : Semantics and Syntax
Klaus Von Heusinger
Hardcover - $324.95
This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de ...