Linguistic Semantics

ISBN-13: 9780805810745 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 544 str.

William Frawley;Frawley

Opis

This volume provides an introduction to linguistic meaning. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning - the way languages delineate universal semantic space and encode it in grammatical form. The author also covers topics such as the temporal ordering of events and themantic roles.

Recenzje

"A lot of important ground gets covered, often revealingly and provocatively!"
—Contemporary Psychology

"...this is a very substantial enterprise. A great deal of scholarship and good work went into it."
—Language

"The coverage of topics is impressively wide....I found the book extremely useful....I would recommend Frawley's book as an introduction to a fascinating complex of semantic notions."
—Linguistics

Spis treści

Contents: Semantics and Linguistic Semantics: Toward Grammatical Meaning. Five Approaches to Meaning. Entities. Events. Thematic Roles. Space. Aspect. Tense and Time. Modality and Negation. Modification.

O autorze

William Frawley