Lexical Meaning in Context
Title | Lexical Meaning in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Asher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2011-03-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139501313 |
This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike.
Meaning and Context
Title | Meaning and Context PDF eBook |
Author | Luca Baptista |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Pragmatics |
ISBN | 9783034305747 |
The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The controversy between semantic minimalists and contextualists regarding context and semantic content is a conspicuous example of the debate's relevance. This collection of essays, written by leading philosophers as well as talented young researchers, offers new approaches to the ongoing discussion about the status of lexical meaning and the role of context dependence in linguistic theorizing. It covers a broad range of issues in semantics and pragmatics such as presuppositions, reference, lexical meaning, discourse relations and information structure, negation, and metaphors. The book is an essential reading for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics.
Lexical Meaning
Title | Lexical Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | M. Lynne Murphy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2010-10-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 113949337X |
The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The book explores the relationship between word meanings and syntax and semantics more generally. It provides a balanced overview of the main theoretical approaches, along with a lucid explanation of their relative strengths and weaknesses. After covering the main topics in lexical meaning, such as polysemy and sense relations, the textbook surveys the types of meanings represented by different word classes. It explains abstract concepts in clear language, using a wide range of examples, and includes linguistic puzzles in each chapter to encourage the student to practise using the concepts. 'Adopt-a-Word' exercises give students the chance to research a particular word, building a portfolio of specialist work on a single word.
Constructing Lexical Meaning by Hypothetical Inference in Context
Title | Constructing Lexical Meaning by Hypothetical Inference in Context PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1999 |
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Words and the Grammar of Context
Title | Words and the Grammar of Context PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kay |
Publisher | Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 1997-02-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781881526186 |
Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions. Students concerned with lexical fields and lexical domains ('lexical semanticists') have interested themselves in the paradigmatic relations of contrast that obtain among related lexical items and the substantive detail of how particular lexical items map to the nonlinguistic objects they stand for. 'Formal semanticists' (those who study the combinatorial properties of word meanings) have been mostly unconcerned with these issues, concentrating rather on how the meanings of individual words, whatever their internal structure may be and however they may be paradigmatically related to one another, combine into the meanings of phrases and sentences (and recently, to some extent, texts).
The Structure of Lexical Variation
Title | The Structure of Lexical Variation PDF eBook |
Author | Dirk Geeraerts |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2012-01-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110873060 |
The Structure of Lexical Variation : Meaning, Naming, and Context.
Words, Worlds, and Contexts
Title | Words, Worlds, and Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110085044 |