Semantics: Volume 1

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I. Foundations of semantics 1. Meaning in linguistics · Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner 2. Meaning, intentionality and communication · Pierre Jacob 3. (Frege on) Sense and reference · Mark Textor 4. Reference: Foundational issues · Barbara Abbott 5. Meaning in language use · Georgia M. Green 6. Compositionality · Peter Pagin and Dag Westerståhl 7. Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues · Stefan Engelberg II. History of semantics 8. Meaning in pre-19th century thought · Stephan Meier-Oeser 9. The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century · Brigitte Nerlich 10. The infl uence of logic on semantics · Albert Newen and Bernhard Schröder 11. Formal semantics and representationalism · Ruth Kempson III. Methods in semantic research 12. Varieties of semantic evidence · Manfred Krifka 13. Methods in cross-linguistic semantics · Lisa Matthewson 14. Formal methods in semantics · Alice G.B. ter Meulen 15. The application of experimental methods in semantics · Oliver Bott, Sam Featherston, Janina Radó and Britta Stolterfoht IV. Lexical semantics 16. Semantic features and primes · Manfred Bierwisch 17. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs · Stefan Engelberg 18. Thematic roles · Anthony R. Davis 19. Lexical Conceptual Structure · Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav 20. Idioms and collocations · Christiane Fellbaum 21. Sense relations · Ronnie Cann 22. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning · Sebastian Löbner V. Ambiguity and vagueness 23. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview · Christopher Kennedy 24. Semantic underspecifi cation · Markus Egg 25. Mismatches and coercion · Henriëtte de Swart 26. Metaphors and metonymies · Andrea Tyler and Hiroshi Takahashi VI. Cognitively oriented approaches to semantics 27. Cognitive Semantics: An overview · Leonard Talmy 28. Prototype theory · John R. Taylor 29. Frame Semantics · Jean Mark Gawron 30. Conceptual Semantics · Ray Jackendoff 31. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure · Ewald Lang and Claudia Maienborn 32. Word meaning and world knowledge · Jerry R. Hobbs VII. Theories of sentence semantics 33. Model-theoretic semantics · Thomas Ede Zimmermann 34. Event semantics · Claudia Maienborn 35. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language · Jonathan Ginzburg VIII. Theories of discourse semantics 36. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction · Jonathan Ginzburg 37. Discourse Representation Theory · Hans Kamp and Uwe Reyle 38. Dynamic semantics · Paul Dekker 39. Rhetorical relations · Henk Zeevat