Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology – serie
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German Temporal Semantics
Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment
Inbunden, 2016
2588 kr
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First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description …
German Temporal Semantics
Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description …
Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing
Inbunden, 2016
2588 kr
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First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English. By limiting the scope of investigation to particular grammatical categories, the author argues previous studies have failed to capture significant pragmatic …
Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English. By limiting the scope of investigation to particular grammatical categories, the author argues previous studies have failed to capture significant pragmatic …
Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation
Inbunden, 2016
2588 kr
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First published in 1983, this book examines anaphora — a central issue in linguistic theory as it lies at the crossroads of several major problems. On the one hand it is believed that the same conditions that govern the interpretation of anaphora also govern syntactic movement rules but on the …
Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation
Häftad, 2018
712 kr
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First published in 1983, this book examines anaphora — a central issue in linguistic theory as it lies at the crossroads of several major problems. On the one hand it is believed that the same conditions that govern the interpretation of anaphora also govern syntactic movement rules but on the …
Word Meaning and Belief
Av S.G. Pulman
Inbunden, 2016
1567 kr
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First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these …
Word Meaning and Belief
Av S.G. Pulman
Häftad, 2018
442 kr
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First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these …
Language and Materialism
Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject
Av Rosalind Coward, John Ellis
Inbunden, 2016
2198 kr
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First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology and structuralism — perhaps the most significant systems of study to have been developed in the twentieth century. The authors describe the early presuppositions of structuralism and …
Language and Materialism
Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject
Av Rosalind Coward, John Ellis
Häftad, 2018
712 kr
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First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology and structuralism — perhaps the most significant systems of study to have been developed in the twentieth century. The authors describe the early presuppositions of structuralism and …
Anatomy of Language
Saying What We Mean
Inbunden, 2016
2198 kr
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First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments. This book provides much information and much …
Anatomy of Language
Saying What We Mean
Häftad, 2018
511 kr
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First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments. This book provides much information and much …
On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses
Inbunden, 2016
1027 kr
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First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which wh-phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted …
On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses
Häftad, 2018
322 kr
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First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which wh-phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted …
Semantics for the English Existential Construction
Inbunden, 2016
2588 kr
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First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. After outlining the …
Semantics for the English Existential Construction
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction? One of the principal goals is to develop an interpretation for the construction that will specifically address other properties of the postcopular DP. After outlining the …
Semantics for Groups and Events
Inbunden, 2016
2198 kr
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First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English. The author defends against counterarguments the hypothesis that distributive predicates are predicates of groups, and not just individuals. By defining the …
Semantics for Groups and Events
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English. The author defends against counterarguments the hypothesis that distributive predicates are predicates of groups, and not just individuals. By defining the …
Principles of Semiotic
Inbunden, 2016
2198 kr
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First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the ‘cultural semiotics’ of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris. The book is divided into two parts, with …
Principles of Semiotic
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the ‘cultural semiotics’ of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris. The book is divided into two parts, with …
Semiotic Perspectives
Inbunden, 2016
2588 kr
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First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is ‘semiotics. It begins by tracing the beginnings of modern semiotics in the works two pioneering figures — Saussure and Peirce — in order to present fundamental assumptions, notions and …
Semiotic Perspectives
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is ‘semiotics. It begins by tracing the beginnings of modern semiotics in the works two pioneering figures — Saussure and Peirce — in order to present fundamental assumptions, notions and …
Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation
Inbunden, 2016
1567 kr
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First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules. The first chapter proposes a basic …
Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation
Häftad, 2018
337 kr
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First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules. The first chapter proposes a basic …
Descriptions in Context
Inbunden, 2016
1567 kr
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First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions — taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an …
Descriptions in Context
Häftad, 2018
472 kr
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First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions — taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an …
Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
Av Various
2016
30014 kr
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Semantics and semiology are two of the most important branches of linguistics and have proven to be fecund areas for research. They examine language structures and how they are dictated by both the meanings and forms of communication employed — semantics by focusing on the denotation of words and …
Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction
Av Mandy Simons
Inbunden, 2016
1567 kr
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First published in 2000, this book is about sentences containing the word or, dealing primarily with sentences in which or conjoins clauses, but also some cases in which it conjoins expressions of other categories. The author aims to give an account of the discourse properties and felicity …
Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction
Av Mandy Simons
Häftad, 2018
472 kr
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First published in 2000, this book is about sentences containing the word or, dealing primarily with sentences in which or conjoins clauses, but also some cases in which it conjoins expressions of other categories. The author aims to give an account of the discourse properties and felicity …
