Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing

✍ Scribed by Klaus von Heusinger (editor); Claudia Maienborn (editor); Paul Portner (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 546
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language.

state of the art in linguistic semantics
great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field
for the first time available as paperbacks

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Semantic types across languages
2. Count/mass distinctions across languages
3. Tense and aspect: Time across languages
4. The expression of space across languages
5. Theories of meaning change: An overview
6. Cognitive approaches to diachronic semantics
7. Grammaticalization and semantic reanalysis
8. Meaning in psycholinguistics
9. Meaning in first language acquisition
10. Meaning in second language acquisition
11. Conceptual knowledge, categorization, and meaning
12. Space in semantics and cognition
13. Semantic research in computational linguistics
14. Semantics in corpus linguistics
15. Semantics in computational lexicons
16. Web semantics
17. Semantic issues in machine translation
Index

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