"Covers all of the basic concepts and methods of the field of semantics, as well as some of the most important contemporary lines of research"--
A completely new unit on non-literal language and metaphor, plus updates throughout the text significantly expand the scope of the original edition to bring it up-to-date with modern teaching of semantics for introductory courses in ...
A completely new unit on non-literal language and metaphor, plus updates throughout the text significantly expand the scope of the original edition to bring it up-to-date with modern teaching of semantics for introductory courses in ...
23 ( Cambridge , MA : MIT Press , 1993 ) ; Barry Schein , " Noughty Bits : The Subatomic Scope of Negation , " Linguistics and Philosophy 39 ( 2016 ) : 459-440 ; Barry Schein , " And ' : Conjunction Reduction Redux ( Cambridge ...
Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics.
Semantics of Natural Language
This book provides an introduction to the essential concepts in programming languages, using operational semantics techniques.
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The book also presents state-of-the-art research in topics at the forefront of semantics.
This book constitutes the first volume of a series of books focusing on the vital and ever-growing field of web semantics.
This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences ...