By Sebastian Loebner
ISBN-10: 041582673X
ISBN-13: 9780415826730
ISBN-10: 1444122436
ISBN-13: 9781444122435
Understanding Semantics, moment Edition, offers an enticing and obtainable advent to linguistic semantics. the 1st half takes the reader via a step by step consultant to the most phenomena and notions of semantics, protecting degrees and dimensions of that means, ambiguity, which means and context, logical kin and that means kin, the fundamentals of noun semantics, verb semantics and sentence semantics. the second one half offers a severe creation to the elemental notions of the 3 significant theoretical ways to which means: structuralism, cognitive semantics and formal semantics.
Key beneficial properties include:
- A constant mentalist viewpoint on meaning
- Broad insurance of lexical and sentence semantics, together with 3 new chapters discussing deixis, NP semantics, presuppositions, verb semantics and frames
- Examples from a much broader variety of languages that come with German, eastern, Spanish and Russian.
- Practical routines on linguistic data
This publication is a necessary source for all undergraduate scholars learning semantics.
Sebastian Löbner is a Professor of Linguistics on the Institute for Language and data on the college of Düsseldorf, Germany
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