Understanding Semantics (Understanding Language)

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\n1 Meaning and semantics\n	1.1 Levels of meaning\n	1.2 Sentence meaning and compositionality\n	1.3 Semantics: its scope and limits\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n2 Dimensions of meaning\n	2.1 Meanings are concepts\n	2.2 Descriptive meaning\n	2.3 Meaning and social interaction: the dimension of social meaning\n	2.4 Meaning and subjectivity: the dimension of expressive meaning\n	2.5 Connotations\n	2.6 Dimensions of meaning\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n3 Ambiguity\n	3.1 Lexemes\n	3.2 Lexical ambiguity\n	3.3 Compositional ambiguity\n	3.4 Contextual ambiguity\n	3.5 Meaning shifts and polysemy\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n4 Meaning and context\n	Part 1: Deixis\n		4.1 Person deixis\n		4.2 Demonstratives and place deixis\n		4.3 Time deixis\n	Part 2: Determination\n		4.4 Definiteness and indefiniteness\n		4.5 Quantification\n		4.6 Generic NPs\n	Part 3: Presuppositions\n		4.7 Presuppositions\n		4.8 Summary\n		Exercises\n		Further reading\n5 Predication\n	5.1 Predications contained in a sentence\n	5.2 Predicate terms and argument terms, predicates and arguments\n	5.3 Verbs\n	5.4 Nouns and adjectives\n	5.5 Predicate logic notation\n	5.6 Thematic roles\n	5.7 Selectional restrictions\n	5.8 Summary\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n6 Verbs\n	6.1 Argument structure, diatheses and alternations\n	6.2 Situation structure\n	6.3 Aspect\n	6.4 Tense\n	6.5 Selected tense and aspect systems\n	6.6 Concluding remark\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n7 Meaning and logic\n	7.1 Logical basics\n	7.2 Logical properties of sentences\n	7.3 Logical relations between sentences\n	7.4 Sentential logic\n	7.5 Logical relations between words\n	7.6 Logic and meaning\n	7.7 Classical logic and presuppositions\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n8 Meaning relations\n	8.1 Synonymy\n	8.2 Hyponymy\n	8.3 Oppositions\n	8.4 Lexical fields\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n9 Meaning components\n	9.1 The structuralist approach\n	9.2 Applying the structuralist approach to meaning\n	9.3 Semantic features\n	9.4 Semantic formulae\n	9.5 Semantic primes: Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage\n	9.6 Summary and evaluation of the approaches to decomposition\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n10 Meaning and language comparison\n	10.1 Translation problems\n	10.2 Headache, international\n	10.3 Relativism and universalism\n	10.4 Berlin and Kay’s investigation of colour terms\n	10.5 Consequences\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n11 Meaning and cognition\n	11.1 Categories and concepts\n	11.2 Prototype theory\n	11.3 The hierarchical organization of categories\n	11.4 Challenges to prototype theory\n	11.5 Semantics and prototype theo\n	11.6 Semantic knowledge\n	11.7 Summary\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n12 Frames\n	12.1 Barsalou frames\n	12.2 Verbs and frames\n	12.3 Nouns and frames\n	12.4 Frames and composition\n	12.5 Frames and cognition\n	12.6 Conclusion\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\n13 Formal semantics\n	13.1 Japanese numerals: a simple example of a compositional analysis\n	13.2 A small fragment of English\n	13.3 Model-theoretic semantics\n	13.4 Possible-world semantics\n	13.5 The scope and limits of possible-world semantics\n	Exercises\n	Further reading\nReferences\nIndex