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Truth and Meaning : Essays in Semantics
Gareth Evans
Paperback - $92.95
Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since. The contributors include leading figures ...
Studies in Language Variation : Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, Pragmatics, Social Situations, Ethnographic Approaches
Ralph W. Fasold
Paperback - $57.95
Mental Spaces : Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language
Gilles Fauconnier
Paperback - $76.95
This book is a major advance in the study of reference, descriptions, and coreference-topics that have long been at the center of research in linguistics and the philosophy of language.
The German Perfect : Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials
Maryann P. Feldman
Hardcover - $312.95
This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense syst ...
Semantic Relationism
Kit Fine
Hardcover - $133.95
Kit Fine argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought. His key idea is that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsi ...
On Sentence Interpretation
L. Frazier
Paperback - $92.95
At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is the idea that each constituent of a sentence is in ...
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
Hardcover - $194.95
Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with the relationship between the meaning of words, the way the world is, and our knowledge of the meaning ...
Words Without Meaning
Christopher Gauker
Paperback - $54.95
According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers a ...
Presuppositions and Pronouns
Bart Geurts
Hardcover - $218.95
In this volume, Geurts takes discourse representation theory (DRT), and turns it into a unified account of anaphora and presupposition, which he applies not only to the standard problem cases but also to the interpretation of modal expressions, attit ...