Semantics - Kearns, Kate
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This is an introductory textbook in semantics for lower-level undergraduates, including extensive end of chapter exercises and suggestions for further reading. The main aim of the book is to provide a good understanding of a range of semantic phenomena and issues in semantics, adopting a truth-conditional account of meaning, but without using a compositional formalism. The book assumes no particular background in linguistics or philosophy, and all the technical tools used are explained as they are introduced. The style is accessible, with numerous examples.
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Produktbeschreibung
This is an introductory textbook in semantics for lower-level undergraduates, including extensive end of chapter exercises and suggestions for further reading. The main aim of the book is to provide a good understanding of a range of semantic phenomena and issues in semantics, adopting a truth-conditional account of meaning, but without using a compositional formalism. The book assumes no particular background in linguistics or philosophy, and all the technical tools used are explained as they are introduced. The style is accessible, with numerous examples.

Table of contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
First Order Logic
Modality and Possible Words
Natural Language Quantifiers
Definite Descriptions
Indefinite Descriptions, Plurals, Generics and Mass NPs
Tense and Aspect
Events
Aspectual Classes of Events
Thematic Roles Reviewed
Implicature and Explicature
Further Reading
Answers to Exercises
Index
Autorenporträt
KATE KEARNS is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.