The Routledge Handbook of Semantics / Edited by Nick Riemer.

Contributor Riemer, Nick, 1972- editor.

Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Descriptionxvi, 533 pages ; 26 cm.

Note:Introduction: Semantics - A Theory in Search of an Object / Nick Riemer -- PART 1: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES. 1. (Descriptive) Externalism in Semantics / Steven Gross ; 2. Internalist Semantics: Meaning, Conceptualization and Expression/ Nick Riemer ; 3. History of Semantics / Keith Allan -- PART 2: APPROACHES. 4. Foundations of Formal Semantics / Jon Gajewski ; 5. Cognitive Semantics / Maarten Lemmens ; 6. Corpus Semantics/ Michael Stubbs -- PART 3: MEANING AND CONCEPTUALIZATION. 7. Categories, Prototypes and Exemplars / James A. Hampton ; 8. Embodiment, Simulation and Meaning/ Benjamin Bergen ; 9. Language and Thought / Daniel Casasanto -- PART 4: MEANING AND CONTEXT. 10. Semantics and Pragmatics / John Saeed ; 11. Contextual Adjustment of Meaning / Robyn Carston -- PART 5: LEXICAL SEMANTICS. 12. Lexical Decomposition / Nick Riemer ; 13. Sense Individuation / Dirk Geeraerts ; 14. Sense Relations / Petra Storjohann ; 15. Semantic Extension/ John Newman -- PART 6: SEMANTICS OF SPECIFIC PHENOMENA. 16. Semantics of Nominals / Sebastian Loebner ; 17. Negation and Polarity / Doris Penka ; 18. Quantification/ Anna Szabolcsi ; 19. Lexical and Grammatical Aspect / Stephen Dickey; 20. Tense / Ilse Depraetere and Raphael Salkie ; 21. Modality / Ilse Depraetere ; 22. Event Semantics / Jean-Pierre Koenig ; 23. Participant Roles / Beatrice Primus ; 24. Compositionality / Adele E. Goldberg ; 25. The Semantics of Lexical Typology / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Ekaterina Rakhilina and Martine Vanhove -- PART 7: EXTENSIONS. 26. Acquisition of Meaning / Soonja Choi ; 27. Expressives / Ad Foolen ; 28. Interpretative Semantics / Francois Rastier ; 29. Semantic Processing / Martin J. Pickering and Steven Frisson.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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