Семантика

Oxford University Press, 2019. — 687 p. This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past twenty years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in...

Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 228 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 460). La obra examina el impacto que la semántica verbal, en concreto la telicidad y la afectación, ejerce sobre el marcado diferencial de objeto (MDO) en español. El trabajo persigue dos objetivos: (i) establecer si los factores mencionados producen realmente el impacto en el MDO que se les...

De Gruyter, 2021. — 241 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 578). Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on the occurrence of single modal auxiliaries. However, cross-linguistically, modal auxiliaries can co-occur with one another, but under interesting restrictions. This monograph examines layered modal constructions and the semantic restrictions under which...

2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2014. — 209 p. Introducing English Semantics, Second Edition is a practical introduction to understanding how meanings are expressed in the English language. Presenting the basic principles of the discipline of semantics, this newly revised edition explores the knowledge of language that speakers have which enables them to communicate - to express...

De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 348 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 368). Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on...

Springer, 2022. — 1169 p. — (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 100). — ISBN 978-3-030-85308-2. This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing...

Mouton De Gruyter, 2016. — 259 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 559). A dish may be delicious, a painting beautiful, a piece of information justified. Whether the attributed properties "really" hold, seems to depend on somebody like a speaker or a group of people that share standards and background. Relativists and contextualists differ in where they locate the dependency...

London and New York: Continuum, 2010. — viii + 241 p. Covers the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in semantics that students in linguistics and language studies will encounter. Typographic conventions Key Terms in Semantics Key Thinkers in Semantics Key Texts in Semantics

Springer, 2017. — 492 p. — (Trends in Logic). — ISBN10: 3319226851, ISBN13: 978-3319226859. This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the relation between...

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 400 p. — (Trends in Language Acquisition Research 24). This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the...

De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 340 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 344). This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three...