552 Pages
by
Routledge
552 Pages
by
Routledge
544 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents results from formal approaches. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning -- the way languages delineate universal semantic space and encode it in grammatical form. Subjects covered by the author include: the domain of... Read more
Contents: Semantics and Linguistic Semantics: Toward Grammatical Meaning. Five Approaches to Meaning. Entities. Events. Thematic Roles. Space. Aspect. Tense and Time. Modality and Negation. Modification.
Biography
William Frawley
"A lot of important ground gets covered, often revealingly and provocatively!"
—Contemporary Psychology"...this is a very substantial enterprise. A great deal of scholarship and good work went into it."
—Language"The coverage of topics is impressively wide....I found the book extremely useful....I would recommend Frawley's book as an introduction to a fascinating complex of semantic notions."
—Linguistics
