Semantik / Semantics: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1991

Semantik / Semantics

Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research

Edited by: Arnim von Stechow and Dieter Wunderlich

Volume 6 in the series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110126969

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During the past 20 years the investigation into meaning of natural languages has emerged into one of the most active disciplines in theoretical linguistics. The different traditions of linguistics, philosophy of language and philosophical logic converged in the paradigm of truth conditional semantics, which now plays a central role in the cognitive sciences. From empirical research in particular languages more principal questions arise of how the speaker succeeds in expressing particular types of meaning by use of formal combination of signs. The theories developed to cope with the question assume that for a hearer, the meaning of a complex expression must be "computable", and therefore, modern theoretical semantics uses formal algebraic methods to construct the meaning compositionally in view of syntactic structur. Furthermore, meaning need to be "anchored" in the experience available to hearer.

In order to deal with this, theoretical semantics extensivly uses the concept of truth conditions, which roughly explain how a world must be structured in order to be matched by certain linguistic expressions. Semantic analyses are complemented by context theory and the theory of speech acts. Thus, linguistic meaning must be related to human cognitive capacities, and therefore, theoretical semantics is tightly connected with philosophical logic as well as cognitive sciences in general.

The aim of this handbook is to represent the body of theoretical knowledge which has evolved in the international research of the last two decades. Some of the theories can now be termed "classical" in that they belong to the commonly accepted base of theoretical semantics. Other theories are still disputed, and there areproblems still to be solved - as normal in a more developed science. The authors, who are leading experts in the field of semantics, try to balance the accepted and the questionable results. It goes without saying that each author hold a particular position in this respect. Some articles are written in English, some in German. Since semantics is considered to be a subfield of linguistics, the articles are arranged due to linguistic points of view. In the first 5 chapters (comprising 15 articles) the common principles of semantics are presented: ontological foundations of semantics, composition of meaning, problems of use (context, speech acts, and lexical base of meaning. The next 5 chapters (comprising 25 articles) are concerned with semantic phenomena, theories and problems which are specific for a particular class of linguistic expressions. These are arranged according to parts of speech: nouns, functional categories, verbs, adjectives and so on.This division does not reflect a theoretical position by itself, however it allows one to recognize problems connected with one another. Some more general questions are discussed in more than one article, in different perspective and vicinity.

The Handbook is complemented by a service article on formal methods in semantics, followed by a comprehensive bibliography including about 1700 entries, and both a subject and a name index. This handbook is indispensable for all research in linguistics and neighboring disciplines (philosophy of language, cognitive sciences). Some of the articles can serve as basic literature for classes of advanced students.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Allgemeine Grundlagen
Bedeutungstheorien John Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Basic Concepts of Semantics M. J. Cresswell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Bedeutung und Gebrauch Dieter Wunderlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Wortsemantik Gisbert Fanselow and Peter Staudacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Probleme der ontologischen Grundlegung: Welt versus Situation
Die Weltsituation M. J. Cresswell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Situationen und kleine Welten Jon Barwise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Theorie der Satzsemantik
Syntax und Semantik Arnim von Stechow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Syntax and Semantics of Categorial Languages M. J. Cresswell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Kontexttheorie
Kontextabhängigkeit Thomas Ede Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Kontextveränderung Ulrike Haas-Spohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Vagheit und Ambiguität Manfred Pinkal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Semantische Grundlagen der Sprechakte
Theorien der Satzmodi Günther Grewendorf and Dietmar Zaefferer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Präsuppositionen Pieter A. M. Seuren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Implikatur Andreas Kemmerling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Fragesätze Rainer Bäuerle and Thomas Ede Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Nominalsemantik
Eigennamen Jean-Yves Lerner and Thomas Ede Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Natural Kinds and Common Nouns Greg N. Carlson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
Massennomina Manfred Krifka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Plural Godehard Link Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
Nominalisierungen Veronika Ehrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
Semantik der Funktionswörter
Quantification Jan van Eijck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Artikel und Definitheit Irene Heim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Pronouns Tanya Reinhart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
Anaphern im Text Peter E. Pause Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	548
Negation Joachim Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	560
Koordinierende Konjunktionen Ewald Lang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
Causal and Purposive Clauses Kjell Johan Sæeb⊘ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	623
Konzessive Konjunktionen Ekkehard König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	631
Modality Angelika Kratzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	639
Conditionals Angelika Kratzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
Adjektivsemantik
Adjectives Cornelia Hamann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	657
Comparatives Ewan Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	673
Verbalsemantik
Verbklassifikation Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	692
Verben der propositionalen Einstellung Rainer Bäuerle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	709
Tempus Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	722
Adverbial Modification in λ-Categorial Languages M. J. Cresswell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	748
Residua: Präpositionen, Gradpartikeln, Fokus
Lokale und Direktionale Dieter Wunderlich and Michael Herweg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	758
Gradpartikeln Ekkehard König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	786
Current Issues in the Theory of Focus Arnim von Stechow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	804
The Representation of Focus Angelika Kratzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	825
Service-Artikel
Formale Methoden in der Semantik Godehard Link Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	835
Bibliographischer Anhang und Register
Bibliographie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	861
Personenregister Esther Damschen and Carola Höhle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	908
Sachregister Gerhard Jäger and Dieter Wunderlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	915

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2010
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 922
Keywords: Semantik

eBook

Published: July 14, 2008
ISBN: 9783110203363

Hardcover

Published: November 1, 1991
ISBN: 9783110126969