Introducing semantics /

Riemer, Nick

Introducing semantics / Nick Riemer. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xv, 460 p.: 25 cm.

Includes references and index

1. Meaning in the empirical study of language; 2. Meaning and definition; 3. The scope of meaning I: external context; 4. The scope of meaning II: interpersonal context; 5. Analysing and distinguishing meanings; 6. Logic as a representation of meaning; 7. Meaning and cognition I: categorisation and cognitive semantics; 8. Meaning and cognition II: formalising and simulating conceptual representations; 9. Meaning and morphosyntax I: the semantics of grammatical categories; 10. Meaning and morphosyntax II: verb meaning and argument structure; 11. Semantic variation and change

The most up-to-date introduction to the study of meaning in language available for undergraduate students.


English

978-0-521-61741-3


Semantics

401.43 R44i