Research Catalog

Title

Semantics / F.R. Palmer.

Author

Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert)

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Details

Description

vi, 221 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subject

• Semantics
• Semantics
• semantics
• Sémantique

Note

• "Based upon a series of lectures on semantics given at the Linguistic Institute in the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1971"--P. vii.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [208]-213.

Contents

Introduction : The terms semantics and meaning ; Semantics and linguistics ; Historical semantics ; Semantics in other disciplines -- The scope of semantics : Naming ; Concepts ; Sense and reference ; The word ; The sentence -- Context and reference : Linguistic relativity ; The exclusion of context ; Context of situation ; Behaviourism ; Context, culture, and style -- Lexical semantics: fields and collocation : Paradigmatic and syntagmatic ; Semantic fields ; Colour systems ; Collocation ; Idioms -- Lexical semantics: sense relations : Some simple logic ; Hyponymy ; Synonymy ; Antonymy ; Relational opposites ; Polysemy and homonymy ; Components ; The problem of universals -- Semantics and grammar : Formal grammar ; Grammatical categories ; Grammar and lexicon ; Grammatical relations ; Components and the sentence ; Predicates and arguments ; Case grammar ; Sentence types and modernity -- Utterance meaning : The spoken language ; Topic and comment ; Performatives and speech acts ; Presupposition ; Implicatures -- Semantics and logic : Logic and language ; Propositional logic ; Predicate logic ; Intension and extension ; Truth-conditional semantics ; Truth conditions and linguistics ; Concluding remarks.

ISBN

• 0521239664
• 9780521239660
• 0521283760
• 9780521283762

LCCN

80042318

OCLC

• ocm07882364
• 7882364
• SCSB-8815150

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library