JOHN I. SAEED (Trinity College, Dublin), Semantics (third Edition), Blackwell Publishing, nov. 2008, 480 p.Isbn 13 (ean): 9781405156394 Présentation de l'éditeur: The third edition of this popular textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to semantics for students new to the field.Explores the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of researchContains new solutions to chapter exercises in order to familiarize the student with the practice of semantic descriptionCompletely revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developmentsIncludes new sections on classifiers and noun classes, as well as conceptual integration John I. Saeed is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College, University of Dublin. He is the author of several books, including Somali Reference Grammar (second edition, 1993) and Somali (1999). Sommaire: List of Figures and TablesPrefaceAbbreviations and Symbols Part I: Preliminaries1. Semantics in Linguistics1.1 Introduction1.2 Semantics and Semiotics1.3 Three Challenges in Doing Semantics1.4 Meeting the Challenges1.5 Semantics in a Model of Grammar1.6 Some Important Assumptions1.7 SummaryFurther readingExercises2. Meaning, Thought and Reality2.1 Introduction2.2 Reference2.3 Reference as a Theory of Meaning2.4 Mental Representations2.5 Words, Concepts and Thinking2.6 SummaryFurther readingExercises Part II: Semantic Description3. Word Meaning3.1 Introduction3.2 Words and Grammatical Categories3.3 Words and Lexical Items3.4 Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning3.5 Lexical Relations3.6 Derivational Relations3.7 Lexical Universals3.8 SummaryFurther readingExercises4. Sentence Relations and Truth4.1 Introduction4.2 Logic and Truth4.3 Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth and Analyticity4.4 Entailment4.5 Presupposition4.6 SummaryFurther readingExercises5. Sentence Semantics 1: Situations5.1 Introduction5.2 Classifying Situations5.3 Modality and Evidentiality5.4 SummaryFurther readingExercises6. Sentence Semantics 2: Participants6.1 Introduction: Classifying Participants6.2 Thematic Roles6.3 Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles6.4 Verbs and Thematic Role Grids6.5 Problems with Thematic Roles6.6 The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles6.7 Voice6.8 Classifiers and [...]

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