Philosophy of Language, 2021. — 228 p. This book provides analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words and their impact in practices of linguistic communication usually related to the discrimination or segregation of certain human groups. Dualism and Monism in the Study of Slurs and Beyond. The Discursive Dimension of Slurs. A Bidimensional Account of Slurs. Expressives and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 228 p. — (Benjamins Current Topics 88). Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 327 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 107). This article focuses on the so-called get-passive, frequently regarded as a problematic construction in the linguistic literature. It is my contention that a lexically-based approach is insufficient to account for the appropriateness of the get-passive, since pragmatic and contextual...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 400 p. — (Trends in Language Acquisition Research 24). This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the...
Brill, 2016. — 398 p. — (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface). In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel theory of the role of the question under discussion in the interpretation of indefinites, appositives and further grammatical constructions.
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 250 p. José L. Zalabardo defends a pragmatist account of what grounds the meaning of central semantic discourses―ascriptions of truth, of propositional attitudes, and of meanings. He argues that it is the procedures that regulate acceptance and rejection that give the sentences of these discourses their meanings, and explores the application of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 361 p. This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent developments in measurement theory, the meaning of numerical expressions and the relation between measurement scales and entailment scales. The authors provide explorations in formal and...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2000. — 224 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 423). The volume outlines a consistent empirical theory of semantic acquisition by combining interdisciplinary aspects of the meaning concept with findings derived from the theory of learnability and confronting these with the insights into meaning acquisition already furnished in the literature on the subject. The...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001. — 234 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 432). The study examines the semantics of spatial expressions, notably spatial prepositions and distance adjectives, and the way they combine. The perspective takes its bearings from cognitive science but within that framework is interdisciplinary in its approach. Evidence is adduced to demonstrate that a...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998. — 174 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 379). "Adverbs, Events, and Other Things" treats issues in the semantics of manner adverbs. Part I takes up the Davidsonian claim that manner adverbs are predicates of events. The book investigates the subtle interplay of event individuation and various kinds of event modification and claims that manner adverbs play...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2000. — 268 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 419). This volume provides a typological description of word-building as exemplified by denominal verbs. Basics results of the study include the conceptual apparatus and typological questionnaire for the description of denominal verbs. The investigation has been carried out on the material of more than 60 languages....
Mouton De Gruyter, 2016. — 259 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 559). A dish may be delicious, a painting beautiful, a piece of information justified. Whether the attributed properties "really" hold, seems to depend on somebody like a speaker or a group of people that share standards and background. Relativists and contextualists differ in where they locate the dependency...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 347 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 562). In the realm of verbal categories, situational arguments are long-established components of lexical semantic representation. The essays in this volume use a broad range of materials to discuss the extent to which it is also possible to justify the notion of situational arguments in the realm of nominal categories. A...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 340 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 344). This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 241 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 578). Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on the occurrence of single modal auxiliaries. However, cross-linguistically, modal auxiliaries can co-occur with one another, but under interesting restrictions. This monograph examines layered modal constructions and the semantic restrictions under which...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 195 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 549). This book argues that in order to account for the compositional behavior of many near-synonymous items, semantic analyses need to pay close attention to at least two semantic dimensions: standard assertions and conventional implicatures, which express additional side comments. The discussed phenomena are clausal...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2007. — 395 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 168). This book proposes a new synthesis of the functions of proper names, from a semantic, pragmatic and syntactic perspective. Proper names are approached constructionally, distinguishing prototypical uses from more marked ones such as those in which names are used as common nouns....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 348 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 368). Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 372 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 306). The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions subscribe to a dynamic approach to...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1978. — 232 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 3). Preface. Theories of meaning. Referential theories. Conceptual theories. Behavioral theory. Use theory. Theory of action. Practical semantics. Forms of semantic description. Aims of practical semantics. Semantic relations. Communication patterns. Communication games. Bibliography. Index.
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 464 p. — (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics). This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and non-linguistic action, and lays the foundations for a theory of action based on a Theory of Types with Records (TTR). Robin Cooper argues that a theory of language based on action allows the adoption of a perspective on...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 304 p. — (Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics). The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of case, semantics also has a crucial role to play in how case operates. This book investigates the relationship between semantics and case-marking...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 417 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 sections on questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and...
Уфа: Изд-во БГПУ, 2007. — 124 с. В монографии представлено системное исследование лексико-фразеологических и синтаксических средств выражения общих и частных оценок; раскрыты основные связи между средствами выражения оценки, описан состав оценочных предикатов, на основе соотношения оценочного и денотативного смыслов в значении предикатов определена их типология; рассмотрены...
Махачкала: Издательство ДГУ, 2018. — 34 с. Дисциплина «Методика и практика семантических исследований» входит в базовую часть образовательной программы магистратуры по направлению (специальности) 45.04.01 – Филология. Она реализуется на филологическом факультете кафедрой русского языка, ее содержание связано с семантическим аспектом относящегося к ней круга вопросов, включенных...
Уфа: Изд-во БГПУ, 2015. — 230 с. В монографии раскрывается проблема выработки единого метаязыка описания семантики глагольных лексем на основе экспериментального исследования ряда английских и русских глаголов. Проведенное исследование и полученные эмпирические данные позволяют установить семантический синтаксис прототипических значений исследуемых глаголов в английском и...
Уфа: Вагант, 2007. — 116 с. В статьях сборника исследуется семантика и прагматика языковых единиц в речи. Материалы статей могут быть использованы в преподавании лингвистических дисциплин в вузе. Сборник адресован широкому кругу специалистов по лингвистике, преподавателям русского языка, а также аспирантам и студентам-филологам. В сборник вошли статьи преподавателей вузов Уфы,...
Калининград: Изд-во РГУ им. И. Канта, 2010. — 314 с. В научный сборник, посвященный юбилею профессора С.С. Ваулиной, вошли новые, а также публиковавшиеся ранее избранные статьи юбиляра, ее коллег и учеников, затрагивающие широкий круг актуальных вопросов модальности как универсальной семантической категории. Книга адресована специалистам в области филологии и других...
Калининград: Изд-во РГУ им. И. Канта, 2009. — 151 с. В сборник вошли материалы ежегодного научного семинара аспирантов «Семантические процессы в языке и речи», проводимого на базе факультета филологии и журналистики РГУ им. И. Канта. Рассматриваются актуальные вопросы лексической и грамматической семантики русского языка в сопоставлении с родственными европейскими языками,...
Оренбург: ОГУ, 2018. — 114 с. Настоящая монография посвящена выявлению структурно-семантических особенностей номинативных единиц туристских предприятий. В первой главе раскрываются теоретические аспекты понятий «номинация», «коммерческая номинация», разрабатывается алгоритм исследования структурно-семантических особенностей коммерческих номинативных единиц. Во второй главе...
Казань: Изд-во КНИТУ, 2016. — 180 с. Монография посвящена сопоставительному изучению семантики и функционированию цветолексем в рекламах интерьера на русском и немецком языках. Будет полезна тем, кто интересуется проблемами современной коммуникативистики и рекламной деятельности. Материалы могут быть использованы в учебном процессе при разработке курсов и спецкурсов по...
Brill, 2018. — 475 p. — (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 4). In his ten Beijing complete lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. This approach concerns the linguistic representation of conceptual structure: the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language.
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 200 p. Combining theory from cognitive semantics and pragmatics, this book offers both a new model and a new usage-based method for the understanding of intersubjectivity, and how social cognition is expressed linguistically at different levels of complexity. Bringing together ideas from linguistics and theory of mind, Tantucci demonstrates...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 347 p. This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. In twelve chapters discussing 11 language families from four continents, authors draw on their own fieldwork experience, pairing explicit methodological proposals with concrete examples of their use in the field. Several...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 270 p. The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages. Some languages grammaticalise a contrast between count nouns (three cats, three books) vs 'non-count' or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this distinction in different ways. Others use a system of numeral classifiers, while yet others use a combination of both....
Emerald, 2010. — 250 p. The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies argues that constraints of interaction from semantic evaluations enforce grammatical dependency patterns that recur across natural languages and within constructions at intra and inter sentential levels as well as discourse levels. The book develops along three lines. Firstly, a handle is gained on why languages...
Mouton De Gruyter, 2019. — 450 p. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 224 p. This book re-imagines the compositional semantics of comparative constructions with words like “more”. It argues for a revision of one of the fundamental assumptions of the degree semantics framework as applied to such constructions: that gradable adjectives do not lexicalize measure functions (i.e., mappings from individuals or events to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 295 p. All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, this volume investigates three mental mechanisms that are widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. For all three mechanisms,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 234 p. Hans-Christian Schmitz argues that a speaker has to utter a sentence in a way that makes the hearer perceive at least those words that are sufficient for understanding the entire sentence. In spoken language the speaker has to accentuate these words. Semantics effects of accentuation appear as epi-phenomena of their pragmatic function. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 280 p. This collection of new essays presents cutting-edge research on the semantic conception of logic, the invariance criteria of logicality, grammaticality, and logical truth. Contributors explore the history of the semantic tradition, starting with Tarski, and its historical applications, while central criticisms of the tradition, and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 414 p. In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular semantic domain (such as the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006. — 357 p. This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of ‘semantic incorporation’ to bare plurals by...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 340 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 344). This book collects twenty-five of the author's essays, each of which addresses a descriptive or a foundational issue that arises at the interface between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, on the one hand, and the philosophy of language, on the other. Arranged into three...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 175 p. This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many languages worldwide, this volume is the first to approach the area from the perspective of formal semantics and...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 392 p. Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and meaning...
Brill, 2021. — 248 p. — (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 14). The first four lectures revolve around field semantics – research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the...
Kansas State University Press, 2006. — 302 p. The author, Prof. Schmidt at Kansas State University, spent a post-doctorate at the University of Edinburgh, perhaps 1983, while working on writing this text. The text is available free of charge on his web page, but you get what you pay for. No images and no figures appear, some of these, if they do, they appear weirdly. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 320 p. A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff, and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to talk about things while using +mass terms to talk about stuff. Bringing together contributions from internationally-renowned experts across interrelated...
Springer, 2021. — 288 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 98). This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities. Languages mark meanings with identical inferences using identical particles and these particles thus creep up in a...