Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Semantics

An original theory about the semantic content of roots

An account of how roots function in word-formation

A wide empirical basis containing a complete corpus of verb-creating roots in Hebrew

• Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions.
  
• Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories.
  
• Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

• Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions.
  
• Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories.
  
• Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

• Written by one of today's most respected philosophers
  
• Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought
  
• Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves
  
• Forms part of the prestigious...

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and...

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and...

• Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult to find papers by one of the most important researchers in formal semantics.
  
• Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her research and the field of semantics have...

• Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity - a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus,...

• Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity - a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus,...

• Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories.
  
• Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.
  
• Written accessibly by one of the world's most prominent formal semanticists.
  
• Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and...

• Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism

• Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic...

• Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism

• Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic...

A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter -- and about why ideas matter. Borrowing from Flaubert's notion of a dictionary of "received ideas" and Raymond Williams's explorations of the "keywords" of the modern age, Jay investigates some of the central concepts by which we currently organize our thoughts and lives. His topics range from "theory" and "experience" to the meaning of "multiculturalism" and the dynamics of cultural "subversion." Among the thinkers he engages are Bataille and Foucault, Adorno and...