Natural Language Semantics
1. Auflage Januar 2001
552 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-19297-8
John Wiley & Sons
Natural Language Semantics discusses fundamental concepts for linguistic semantics. This book combines theoretical explanations of several methods of inquiry with detailed semantic analysis and emphasises the philosophy that semantics is about meaning in human languages and that linguistic meaning is cognitively and functionally motivated.
Preface.
Symbols Used.
1. Some Fundamental Concepts for Semantics.
2. Words and Worlds and Reference.
3. The Lexicon and The Encyclopedia.
4. Morphology and Listemes.
5. The Power of Words: Connotation and Jargon.
6. Semantic Relations between Sentences.
Predicate Logic, Sets, and Lambda: Tools for Semantic
Analysis.
8. Frames, Fields, and Semantic Components.
9. Cognitive Semantics: Backs, Colours, and Classifiers.
10. Using the Typical Denotatum to Identify the Intended
Referent.
11. Mood, Tense, Modality, and Thematic Roles.
12. The Semantics of Clause Predicates.
13. Quantifiers in English.
Epilogue.
References.
Index.
Symbols Used.
1. Some Fundamental Concepts for Semantics.
2. Words and Worlds and Reference.
3. The Lexicon and The Encyclopedia.
4. Morphology and Listemes.
5. The Power of Words: Connotation and Jargon.
6. Semantic Relations between Sentences.
Predicate Logic, Sets, and Lambda: Tools for Semantic
Analysis.
8. Frames, Fields, and Semantic Components.
9. Cognitive Semantics: Backs, Colours, and Classifiers.
10. Using the Typical Denotatum to Identify the Intended
Referent.
11. Mood, Tense, Modality, and Thematic Roles.
12. The Semantics of Clause Predicates.
13. Quantifiers in English.
Epilogue.
References.
Index.
"The field of semantics within linguistics needs Allan's book to
stand as a marker of the clash of two traditions (the
formalist/logical tradition and the pragmatic discourse-based
tradition) and as a partially successful attempt to integrate these
traditions and to produce a workable synthesis of them. The work is
extremely impressive from the point of view of scholarship. Allan
is clearly widely read, and has given deep thought to the central
problems of the field." James R Hurford, University of
Edinburgh.
"Allan's book is a wonderful and useful addition to the
semantics literature. It covers all topics, from formal to
conceptual, to typological, and does so with insight and
accessibility. I especially like the problems, which are well
thought out and effective teaching tools. Allan is to be praised
for taking on the immensely difficult task of writing this book and
producing such a good book." William Frawley, University of
Delaware.
Every computational linguist should own at least one semantics
textbook. Allan's book stands apart from many other texts in the
way it conveys a real sense of the variety and fecundity of
language as spoken by living, breathing human beings."
Computational Linguistics
stand as a marker of the clash of two traditions (the
formalist/logical tradition and the pragmatic discourse-based
tradition) and as a partially successful attempt to integrate these
traditions and to produce a workable synthesis of them. The work is
extremely impressive from the point of view of scholarship. Allan
is clearly widely read, and has given deep thought to the central
problems of the field." James R Hurford, University of
Edinburgh.
"Allan's book is a wonderful and useful addition to the
semantics literature. It covers all topics, from formal to
conceptual, to typological, and does so with insight and
accessibility. I especially like the problems, which are well
thought out and effective teaching tools. Allan is to be praised
for taking on the immensely difficult task of writing this book and
producing such a good book." William Frawley, University of
Delaware.
Every computational linguist should own at least one semantics
textbook. Allan's book stands apart from many other texts in the
way it conveys a real sense of the variety and fecundity of
language as spoken by living, breathing human beings."
Computational Linguistics
Keith Allan is Reader in Linguistics at Monash University, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has taught in Britain, Kenya, Nigeria, and the United States. His research and publications focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language and his previous books are Linguistic Meaning (2 volumes, 1986) and Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (co-authored with Kate Burridge, 1991).
