Meanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse. The collection focuses on meaning change as a topic of interdisciplinary research. Distinguished scholars in diachronic semantics, general linguistics, classical philology, philosophy of language,
Semantics from Different Points of View
β Scribed by Barbara Hall-Partee (auth.), Dr. Rainer BΓ€uerle, Professor Dr. Urs Egli, Professor Dr. Arnim von Stechow (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 429
- Series
- Springer Series in Language and Communication 6
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Semantics β Mathematics or Psychology?....Pages 1-14
Do We Really Need Tenses Other Than Future and Past?....Pages 15-20
Context Change, Truth and Competence....Pages 21-31
How to Refer with Vague Descriptions....Pages 32-50
Concealed Questions....Pages 51-60
Questions and Answers....Pages 61-74
Comparison and Gradual Change....Pages 75-89
Interval Semantics for Some Event Expressions....Pages 90-116
Conditional Necessity and Possibility....Pages 117-147
A Semantic Analysis of German βErstβ....Pages 148-160
Meaning and Context-Dependence....Pages 161-171
Scorekeeping in a Language Game....Pages 172-187
On Pragmatic Demarcation of Language....Pages 188-194
Constructive Pragmatics and Semantics....Pages 195-205
Explanation and Understanding in the Theory of Language....Pages 206-215
A New Approach to Formal Syntax....Pages 216-225
Visiting German Relatives....Pages 226-265
The Stoic Concept of Anaphora....Pages 266-283
Expression and Content in Stoic Linguistic Theory....Pages 284-303
RΓ©parer β Reparieren. A Contrastive Study....Pages 304-323
SALAT: Machine Translation Via Semantic Representation....Pages 324-352
Conceptual Impairment in Aphasia....Pages 353-363
On the Representation of Classificatory and Propositional Lexical Relations in the Human Brain....Pages 364-375
Events, Instants and Temporal Reference....Pages 376-418
Back Matter....Pages 419-422
β¦ Subjects
Psychology, general
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