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1 online resource (552 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTIC SEMANTICS: TOWARD GRAMMATICAL MEANING; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Grammatical Meaning: An Introduction and Illustration; 1.3 Philosophical Semantics and Linguistic Semantics; 1.4 Grammatical Meaning Revisited; 2 FIVE APPROACHES TO MEANING; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Approach 1: Meaning as Reference; 2.3 Approach 2: Meaning as Logical Form; 2.4 Approach 3: Meaning as Context and Use; 2.5 Approach 4: Meaning as Culture; 2.6 Approach 5: Meaning as Conceptual Structure |
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2.7 Postscript: Some Notes on Definition3 ENTITIES; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Eight Classes of Semantic Properties of Entities; 3.3 Unifying the Semantic Properties of Entities; 4 EVENTS; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Four Kinds of Events: Acts, States, Causes, and Motion; 4.3 Using and Expanding the Semantic Representation of Events: Transfer and Possession; 4.4 Typologies of Events; 5 THEMATIC ROLES; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Twelve Thematic Roles; 5.3 Unified Treatments of Thematic Roles: Localism, Macroroles, and Linking Theory; 6 SPACE; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Location; 6.3 Deixis |
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6.4 Unifying the Semantics of Space7 ASPECT; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Six Major Aspects; 7.3 Five Minor Aspects; 7.4 Unified Treatments of Aspect; 8 TENSE AND TIME; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Tense Structure and Tense Systems; 8.3 Unified Treatments of Tense; 9 MODALITY AND NEGATION; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Negation; 9.3 Epistemic Modality; 9.4 Deontic Modality; 9.5 The Development of Modality; 10 MODIFICATION; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Six Classes of Property Concepts; 10.3 Modifier Order; AUTHOR INDEX; LANGUAGE INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX |
| Summary |
This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents results from formal approaches. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning -- the way languages delineate universal semantic space and encode it in grammatical form. Subjects covered by the author include: the domain of linguistic semantics and the basic tools, assumptions, and issues of semantic analysis; semantic properties of entities, events, and thematic roles; language and space; tense, aspect, and the i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Semantics.
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Linguistics.
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linguistics.
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Linguistics
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Semantics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135441777 |
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1135441774 |
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