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Book cover for Henriette De Swart: Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Henriette De Swart
Paperback - $48.95

Semantics is defined as the study of meaning expressed by elements of a language or combinations thereof. Utterances are not just noises or scribbles, they are used to convey information, and they are linked with kinds of events and with states of mi ...

Book cover for Philip Edmonds: Word Sense Disambiguation

Word Sense Disambiguation : Algorithms and Applications

Philip Edmonds
Paperback - $82.95



Book cover for Ronald Englefield: Critique of Pure Verbiage

Critique of Pure Verbiage

Ronald Englefield
Paperback - $32.95



Book cover for Gareth Evans: Truth and Meaning

Truth and Meaning : Essays in Semantics

Gareth Evans
Paperback - $92.95

Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since. The contributors include leading figures ...

Book cover for Ralph W. Fasold: Studies in Language Variation

Studies in Language Variation : Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, Pragmatics, Social Situations, Ethnographic Approaches

Ralph W. Fasold
Paperback - $57.95



Book cover for Gilles Fauconnier: Mental Spaces

Mental Spaces : Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language

Gilles Fauconnier
Paperback - $76.95

This book is a major advance in the study of reference, descriptions, and coreference-topics that have long been at the center of research in linguistics and the philosophy of language.

Book cover for Maryann P. Feldman: The German Perfect

The German Perfect : Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials

Maryann P. Feldman
Hardcover - $312.95

This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense syst ...

Book cover for Kit Fine: Semantic Relationism

Semantic Relationism

Kit Fine
Hardcover - $137.95

Kit Fine argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought. His key idea is that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsi ...

Book cover for L. Frazier: On Sentence Interpretation

On Sentence Interpretation

L. Frazier
Paperback - $92.95

At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence. Implicit in many investigations of language comprehension is the idea that each constituent of a sentence is in ...

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