Semantics
A Reader
Published on 9. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
936 pages
978-0-19-513698-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this selection of published articles in the area of semantics, Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon try to obtain a representative coverage of topics, approaches, and recognized authors; while choosing articles which have made an important contribution to the field and are accessible to students as well as scholars. The volume will have appeal as a textbook for upper level courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics, phonology, and philosophy of language. Semantics: A Reader may serve as a companion to Davis's: Pragmatics: A Reader.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional linguists and their graduate students, philosophers, cognitive scientists and others interested in the workings of language.
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
1596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513698-2 (9780195136982)
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Persons
Steven Davis is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre on Values and Ethics at Carleton University and Brendan S. Gillon is Associate Professor uf Linguistics at McGill University.
Content
Contributors
Part I. IntroductionSteven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon:
1: Preliminaries
2: Linguistics and Typology
3: Linguistics and Logic
4: Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning
5: Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories
6: Semantics and Context
7: Conclusion
8: Appendix
Part II. Background
9: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: The Principle of Semantic Compositionality
10: Brendan S. Gillon
: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory
Part III. Approaches
11: David Lewis: General Semantics
12: Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning
13: Hans Kamp: A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
14: Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof: Dynamic Predicate Logic
15: Jon Barwise and John Perry: Situations and Attitudes
16: Ray Jackendoff: What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?
17: Gilles Fauconnier
: Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration
Part IV. Topics
18: James Pustejovsky: The Generative Lexicon
19: Brendan S. Gillon: Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns
20: Tyler Burge: Reference and Proper Names
21: Gareth Evans: Pronouns
22: James Higginbotham: Pronouns and Bound Variables
23: Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper: Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
24: Hans Reichenbach: The Tenses of Verbs
25: Barbara Hall Partee: Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
26: J. A. W. (Hans) Kamp: Two Theories about Adjectives
27: Max J. Cresswell: Prepositions and Points of View
28: Irena Bellert: On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs
29: Richmond H. Thomason and Robert C. Stalnaker: A Semantic Theory of Adverbs
30: David Lewis: Adverbs of Quantification
31: Roland Posner: Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language
32: Gerald Gazdar: A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination
33: R. E. (Ray) Jennings: The Means of Connectives
34: James Higginbotham: Interrogatives
35: Daniel Vanderveken: Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics
36: Donald Davidson
: The Logical Form of Action Sentences
Part V. Context Dependency
37: David Kaplan: Demonstratives
38: Scott Weinstein: Truth and Demonstratives
39: David Lewis: Scorekeeping in a Language Game
40: Robyn Carston: Explicature and Semantics
41: Robert J. Stainton: Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness "in Isolation," and Ellipsis
Bibliography
Index
Part I. IntroductionSteven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon:
1: Preliminaries
2: Linguistics and Typology
3: Linguistics and Logic
4: Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning
5: Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories
6: Semantics and Context
7: Conclusion
8: Appendix
Part II. Background
9: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: The Principle of Semantic Compositionality
10: Brendan S. Gillon
: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory
Part III. Approaches
11: David Lewis: General Semantics
12: Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning
13: Hans Kamp: A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
14: Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof: Dynamic Predicate Logic
15: Jon Barwise and John Perry: Situations and Attitudes
16: Ray Jackendoff: What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?
17: Gilles Fauconnier
: Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration
Part IV. Topics
18: James Pustejovsky: The Generative Lexicon
19: Brendan S. Gillon: Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns
20: Tyler Burge: Reference and Proper Names
21: Gareth Evans: Pronouns
22: James Higginbotham: Pronouns and Bound Variables
23: Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper: Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
24: Hans Reichenbach: The Tenses of Verbs
25: Barbara Hall Partee: Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
26: J. A. W. (Hans) Kamp: Two Theories about Adjectives
27: Max J. Cresswell: Prepositions and Points of View
28: Irena Bellert: On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs
29: Richmond H. Thomason and Robert C. Stalnaker: A Semantic Theory of Adverbs
30: David Lewis: Adverbs of Quantification
31: Roland Posner: Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language
32: Gerald Gazdar: A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination
33: R. E. (Ray) Jennings: The Means of Connectives
34: James Higginbotham: Interrogatives
35: Daniel Vanderveken: Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics
36: Donald Davidson
: The Logical Form of Action Sentences
Part V. Context Dependency
37: David Kaplan: Demonstratives
38: Scott Weinstein: Truth and Demonstratives
39: David Lewis: Scorekeeping in a Language Game
40: Robyn Carston: Explicature and Semantics
41: Robert J. Stainton: Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness "in Isolation," and Ellipsis
Bibliography
Index