Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods / / ed. by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Heusinger, Paul Portner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, Barbara,; Bott, Oliver,; Engelberg, Stefan,; Featherston, Sam,; Green, Georgia M.,; Heusinger, Klaus von,; Jacob, Pierre,; Kempson, Ruth,; Krifka, Manfred,; Maienborn, Claudia,; Matthewson, Lisa,; Meier-Oeser, Stephan,; Meulen, Alice G.B. ter,; Nerlich, Brigitte,; Newen, Albert,; Pagin, Peter,; Portner, Paul,; Radó, Janina,; Schröder, Bernhard,; Stolterfoht, Britta,; Textor, Mark,; Westerståhl, Dag,
• HerausgeberIn: Heusinger, Klaus,; Maienborn, Claudia,; Portner, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Reader
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 411 p.)

Get to grips with the fundamentals of semantics research. Written by a team of world-class experts, this book introduces the subject for a broad audience of linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists. It explores the core concepts of sentential semantics and includes sect...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1 Meaning in linguistics
• 2 Meaning, intentionality and communication
• 3 (Frege on) Sense and reference
• 4 Reference: Foundational issues
• 5 Meaning in language use
• 6 Compositionality
• 7 Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues
• 8 Meaning in pre-19th century thought
• 9 The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century
• 10 The influence of logic on semantics
• 11 Formal semantics and representationalism
• 12 Varieties of semantic evidence
• 13 Methods in cross-linguistic semantics
• 14 Formal methods in semantics
• 15 The application of experimental methods in semantics
• Index