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1 online resource (562 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Semantic Elements and Other Symbols; Chapter 1. On Entering the Realms; Language as a tool; Communication; Does meaning really exist?; Language as a bridge; Triangle of Signification; Limits of the realms (summary); Notes and answers; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises on entering; Chapter 2. Markedness and Blocking; Marked and unmarked adjectives; The lexicon; Lexical blocking; Markedness, blocking and the lexicon (summary); Back to meaning; Notes and answers; Keywords |
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Further readingExercises with markedness and blocking; Chapter 3. Opposites and Negatives; Antonyms; Complementaries; Antonymous groups; Negative prefixes; Negation in sentences; Double negation with adjectives; Contraries and contradictories; Negation (summary); Notes and answers; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises with negation; Chapter 4. Deixis; This and that; Symbols for meanings; Coming and going; Extensions; System in deixis (summary); Notes and answers; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises with deixis; Chapter 5. Orientations; Towards speakers, or subjects |
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'Please ... ' and ' ..., please'Benefit for subject; Other orientations; Making requests; Summary; Notes and answers; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises with orientations; Chapter 6. Modal Verbs; Future; Capacity modals; Logical modality; Generic modals and used to; Deontic modals; Generality, and a problem; Time marking; Epistemic modals; Connections; English modal verbs; Notes and answers; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises with modal verbs; Chapter 7. Time: Tense and Aspect; Tense and aspect; Not past; Progressive aspect; Summary; Note for further exploration; Answers and notes; Keywords |
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Further readingExercises with tense and aspect marking; Chapter 8. Limits to Events; States and stativity; Volition; Punctive and durative -- perfective and imperfective; Iterative and generic; Types of verbs; Adverbs for limits; Aspect of events; Answers and notes; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises with verbal limits; Chapter 9. Prepositions; Showing locations and limits of events; More of these basic prepositions; Strong, weak and adverbial forms; Other locational prepositions; Prepositions for time ... ; ... and for Causality; The case of the missing preposition; Generic forms |
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English prepositionsAnswers and notes; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises with prepositions; Chapter 10. Reference and Predication; Not meaning; Law of denotation; How to refer -- to a single (group of) individual(s); Descriptions; Predicative -- attributive; Names; Non-singular reference; Reference; Answers and notes; Keywords; Further reading; Exercises in reference; Chapter 11. Words to Sentences; What type?; Prepositions for semantic roles; Underlying order; Semantic structure; If sentences are real, when are they 'complete'?; To be or no to be; Sentence meaning |
| Summary |
Provides an understanding of the way meaning works in natural languages, against a background of how we communicate with language. Examples are chosen mainly from English to provide material for the wider discussion of the principles of the subject, but European, East Asian and other languages also provide illuminating examples |
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Word meaning, sentence meaning |
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Print version record |
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Semantics.
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semantics.
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Semantics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317901136 |
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1317901134 |
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