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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations and Symbols | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Semantics in Linguistics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Semantics and Semiotics | |
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| Three Challenges in Doing Semantics | |
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| Meeting the Challenges | |
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| Semantics in a Model of Grammar | |
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| Some Important Assumptions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Meaning, Thought and Reality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reference | |
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| Reference as a Theory of Meaning | |
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| Mental Representations | |
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| Words, Concepts and Thinking | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Semantic Description | |
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| Word Meaning | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Words and Grammatical Categories | |
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| Words and Lexical Items | |
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| Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning | |
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| Lexical Relations | |
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| Derivational Relations | |
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| Lexical Universals | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sentence Relations and Truth | |
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| Logic and Truth | |
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| Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth and Analyticity | |
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| Entailment | |
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| Presupposition | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sentence Semantics 1: Situations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Classifying Situations | |
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| Modality and Evidentiality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sentence Semantics 2: Participants | |
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| Introduction: Classifying Participants | |
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| Thematic Roles | |
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| Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles | |
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| Verbs and Thematic Role Grids | |
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| Problems with Thematic Roles | |
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| The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles | |
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| Voice | |
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| Classifiers and Noun Classes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Context and Inference | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Deixis | |
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| Reference and Context | |
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| Knowledge as Context | |
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| Information Structure | |
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| Inference | |
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| Conversational Implicature | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Functions of Language: Speech as Action | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Austin's Speech Act Theory | |
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| Categorizing Speech Acts | |
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| Indirect Speech Acts | |
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| Sentence Types | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Theoretical Approaches | |
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| Meaning Components | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lexical Relations in CA | |
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| Katz's Semantic Theory | |
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| Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components | |
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| Components and Conflation Patterns | |
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| Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure | |
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| Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon | |
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| Problems with Components of Meaning | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Formal Semantics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Model-Theoretical Semantics | |
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| Translating English into a Logical Metalanguage | |
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| The Semantics of the Logical Metalanguage | |
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| Checking the Truth-Value of Sentences | |
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| Word Meaning: Meaning Postulates | |
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| Natural Language Quantifiers and Higher Order Logic | |
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| Intensionality | |
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| Dynamic Approaches to Discourse | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Cognitive Semantics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Metaphor | |
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| Metonymy | |
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| Image Schemas | |
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| Polysemy | |
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| Mental Spaces | |
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| Langacker's Cognitive Grammar | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Solutions to Selected Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |