ENGLISH SEMANTICS

ENGLISH SEMANTICS

1. Part III: Theoretical Approaches

   • 9: Meaning Components
     • Introduction
     • Lexical Relations in CA
     • Katz's Semantic Theory
     • Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components
     • Talmy's Typology of Motion Events
     • Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure
     • Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon
     • Problems with Components of Meaning
     • Summary
   • 10: Formal Semantics
     • Introduction
     • Model-Theoretical Semantics
     • Translating English into a Logical Metalanguage
     • The Semantics of the Logical Metalanguage
     • Checking the Truth- Value of Sentences
     • Word Meaning: Meaning Postulates
     • Natural Language Quantifiers and Higher-Order Logic
     • Intensionality
     • Dynamic Approaches to Discourse
     • Summary
   • 11: Cognitive Semantics
     • Introduction
     • Categorization
     • Polysemy
     • Metaphor
     • Metonymy
     • Mental Spaces
     • Langacker's Cognitive Grammar
     • Construction Grammar
     • Summary

2. Part II: Semantic Description

   • 3: Word Meaning
     • Introduction
     • Words and Grammatical Categories
     • Words and Lexical Items
     • Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning
     • Lexical Relations
     • Derivational Relations
     • Lexical Typology
     • Summary
   • 5: Sentence Semantics 1: Situation
     • Introduction
     • Classifying Situations
     • Modality and Evidentiality
     • Summary
   • 6: Sentence Semantics 2: Participants
     • Introduction
     • Thematic Roles
     • Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles
     • Verbs and Thematic Role Grids
     • Problems with Thematic Roles
     • The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles
     • Causation
     • Voice
     • Classifiers and Noun Classes
     • Summary
   • 7: Context and Inference
     • Introduction
     • Deixis
     • Reference and Context
     • Knowledge as Context
     • Information Structure
     • Inference
     • Conversational Implicature
     • Lexical Pragmatics
     • Summary
   • 4: Sentence Relations and Truth
     • Introduction
     • Logic and Truth
     • Necessary Truth
     • Entailment
     • Presupposition
     • Summary
   • 8: Functions of Language: Speech as Action
     • Introduction
     • Austin's Speech Act Theory
     • Categorizing Speech Acts
     • Indirect Speech Acts
     • Sentence Types
     • Summary

3. Part I: Preliminaries

   • 1: Semantics in Linguistics
     • Introduction
     • Semantics and Semiotics
     • Three Challenges in Doing Semantics
     • Meeting the Challenges
     • Semantics in a Model of Grammar
     • Some important Assumptions
     • Summary
   • 2: Meaning, Thought, and Reality
     • Introduction
     • Reference
     • Reference as a Theory of Meaning
     • Mental Representations
     • Words, Concepts, and Thinking
     • Summary