Semantics: Theories

✍ Scribed by Claudia Maienborn (editor), Klaus Von Heusinger (editor), Paul Portner (editor)

• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 451
• Series: Mouton Reader
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Cognitive Semantics: An overview • Leonard Talmy
2 Prototype theory • John R. Taylor
3 Frame Semantics • Jean-Mark Gawron
4 Conceptual Semantics • Ray Jackendoff
5 Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure • Ewald Lang and Claudia Maienborn
6 Word meaning and world knowledge • Jerry R. Hobbs
7 Model-theoretic semantics • Thomas Ede Zimmermann
8 Event semantics • Claudia Maienborn
9 Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language • Jonathan Ginzburg
10 Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction • Jonathan Ginzburg
11 Discourse Representation Theory • Hans Kamp and Uwe Reyle
12 Dynamic semantics • Paul Dekker
13 Rhetorical relations • Henk Zeevat
Index