Description

Book Synopsis

An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thorough investigation of issues and phenomena central to the development of modern semantics and its interfaces. Presenting in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book investigates competing analyses and approaches, examines their conceptual foundations, and evaluates them as applied to various languages. This authoritative collection enables scholars and students of semanticsas well as those from associated areas of linguistics such as syntacticiansto broaden and deepen their knowledge of the subject and the developments in the field.

Presenting over 100 case studies, the collection of chapters within this Companion is organized in alphabetical order for ease of reference. This key reference work:

  • Provides detailed coverage of the major developments in linguistic semanti

    Table of Contents

    Actuality Entailments
    Valentine Hacquard

    Ambiguity
    Massimo Poesio

    Anankastic conditionals
    Kjell Johan Sæbø

    Aspectual composition: Drinking (a glass of) milk
    Markus Egg

    Attitude Verbs
    Hazel Pearson

    Bare singulars
    Alan Munn & Cristina Schmitt

    Biscuit conditionals
    Kyle Rawlins

    Boolean and non-Boolean conjunction
    Viola Schmitt

    Clausal vs. phrasal comparatives
    Winfried Lechner

    Complex Demonstratives
    Geoff Georgi

    Compositionality
    Michael Johnson

    Concealed Questions
    Ilaria Frana

    Conceptual spaces and semantic similarities of colors
    Gerhard Jäger

    Context and Conversation
    Mitchell Green

    Copular Sentences
    Caroline Heycock

    Correlatives
    Jo-Wang Lin

    Count nouns vs. Mass nouns
    Susan Rothstein

    Counterfactuals
    Ana Arregui

    Definiteness
    Cécile Meier

    Dimensions of meaning
    Daniel Gutzmann

    Discourse particles
    Patrick G. Grosz

    Distributivity, Collectivity, and Cumulativity
    Lucas Champollion

    Donkey Anaphora
    Adrian Brasoveanu & Jakub Dotlacil

    Ellipsis and Identity
    Daniel Hardt

    Epistemic Modality
    Igor Yanovich

    E-Type Pronouns
    Rick Nouwen

    Evaluative Predicates beyond fun and tasty
    Carla Umbach

    Evidentials
    Sarah Murray

    Exclamatives
    Elena Castroviejo

    Expressives
    Elin McCready

    Family Resemblance and Prototypes
    Galit Sassoon

    Free choice disjunction
    Marie-Christine Meyer

    Free Choice Items and Modal Indefinites
    "Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Paula Menéndez-Benito"

    Free Relatives
    Radek Šimík

    Gradable adjectives and degree expressions
    Marcin Morzycki

    Graded Modality
    Daniel Lassiter

    Idioms
    Manfred Sailer

    Imperatives
    Magda Kaumann

    Imperfectivity
    Ashwini Deo

    Indefinite-interrogative affinity
    Edgar Onea

    Index-Dependence and Embedding
    Orin Percus

    Indexicality
    Isidora Stojanovic

    Indicative Conditionals
    Katrin Schulz & Robert van Rooij

    Information Structure
    Beáta Gyuris

    Intensional Transitive Verbs
    Florian Schwarz

    Intentional Identity
    Robert van Rooij

    Intervention effects
    Clemens Steiner-Mayr

    Inverse linking constructions
    Malte Zimmermann

    Kinds of (Non)Specificity
    "Donka F. Farkas & Adrian Brasoveanu"

    Lexical aspect (Aktionsart)
    Hana Filip

    Lexical decomposition
    Irene Rapp & Arnim von Stechow

    Linguistic relativity: From Whorf to now
    Jürgen Bohnemeyer

    Literal vs enriched meaning
    Paul Elbourne

    Logical Omniscience
    Paul Egré

    Matrix and embedded presuppositions: projection, accommodation, cancellation, and ambiguities
    Raj Singh

    Measure phrases
    Greg Scontras

    Mixed Quotation
    Emar Maier

    Modal concord
    Janneke van Wijnbergen-Huitink

    Modal Subordination: It would eat you first!
    Craige Roberts

    Modal-Temporal Interactions
    "Anamaria Falaus & Brenda Laca"

    Modified Numerals
    Benjamin Spector

    Negative Indefinites and negative concord
    Doris Penka

    Negative polarity
    Vincent Homer

    Nominal vs. Adverbial Quantification
    Stefan Hinterwimmer

    Nominalizations: The Case of Nominalizations of Modal Predicates
    Friederike Moltmann

    Nonlocal adjectival modification
    Bernhard Schwarz

    Non-restrictive nominal modification
    Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

    Noun Incorporation
    "Sandra Chung & William A. Ladusaw"

    Pluractionality
    Ana Müller + Luciana Sanchez-Mendes

    Possible Worlds Semantics for Pictures
    Dorit Abusch

    Pragmatic Accommodation
    "Mikhail Kissine & Myrto Pantazi"

    Presuppositional Binding
    Rob van der Sandt

    Progressive: The Imperfective paradox
    Alessandro Zucchi

    Prosodic focus
    Michael Wagner

    Quantifiers, Scope, and Pseudo-Scope
    Wolfgang Sternefeld

    Quantity Implicatures
    Uli Sauerland + Andreea Nicolae

    "Questions and interrogatives, exhaustivity vs. quantificational variability"
    Paul Hagstrom

    Representing Intensionality
    Thomas Ede Zimmermann

    Rhetorical Relations
    "Katja Jasinskaja & Elena Karagjosova"

    Semantic Change
    Dirk Geeraerts

    Semantic Parameters and Universals
    Sigrid Beck

    Semantics of English intonation: A leopard? A leopard!
    Hubert Truckenbrodt

    Semantics vs. Pragmatics
    Daniel Gutzmann

    Sequence of Tense
    Yael Sharvit

    Spatial prepositions and locatives in formal semantics
    Marcus Kracht

    Speaker’s Reference
    Barbara Abbott

    Strong and Weak Nominals
    Louise McNally

    Systematic Polysemy
    Johannes Dölling

    Temporal Properties of Noun Phrases
    Judith Tonhauser

    Tense and Temporal Adverbs
    Daniel Altshuler

    The Interpretation of Tense
    "Toshiyuki Ogihara & Kiyomi Kusumoto"

    The Linguistic and Philosophical Status of ‘Impossible Words’
    John Collins

    The Name and Nature of Neg-Raising
    Jon Robert Gajewski

    The Parameters of Indirect Speech
    Regine Eckardt

    The Partee Paradox
    Sebastian Löbner

    The Perfect
    Atle Grønn & Arnim von Stechow

    The Semantics and Pragmatics of Appositives
    Philippe Schlenker

    The subjunctive
    Josep Quer

    Topic
    Satoshi Tomioka

    Type Shifting: The Partee Triangle
    Herman Hendriks

    Vagueness and Natural Language Semantics
    "Heather Burnett & Peter Sutton"

    Weak necessity
    Aynat Rubinstein

    Wide Scope Indefinites
    Cornelia Ebert

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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field

      The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thorough investigation of issues and phenomena central to the development of modern semantics and its interfaces. Presenting in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book investigates competing analyses and approaches, examines their conceptual foundations, and evaluates them as applied to various languages. This authoritative collection enables scholars and students of semanticsas well as those from associated areas of linguistics such as syntacticiansto broaden and deepen their knowledge of the subject and the developments in the field.

      Presenting over 100 case studies, the collection of chapters within this Companion is organized in alphabetical order for ease of reference. This key reference work:

      • Provides detailed coverage of the major developments in linguistic semanti

        Table of Contents

        Actuality Entailments
        Valentine Hacquard

        Ambiguity
        Massimo Poesio

        Anankastic conditionals
        Kjell Johan Sæbø

        Aspectual composition: Drinking (a glass of) milk
        Markus Egg

        Attitude Verbs
        Hazel Pearson

        Bare singulars
        Alan Munn & Cristina Schmitt

        Biscuit conditionals
        Kyle Rawlins

        Boolean and non-Boolean conjunction
        Viola Schmitt

        Clausal vs. phrasal comparatives
        Winfried Lechner

        Complex Demonstratives
        Geoff Georgi

        Compositionality
        Michael Johnson

        Concealed Questions
        Ilaria Frana

        Conceptual spaces and semantic similarities of colors
        Gerhard Jäger

        Context and Conversation
        Mitchell Green

        Copular Sentences
        Caroline Heycock

        Correlatives
        Jo-Wang Lin

        Count nouns vs. Mass nouns
        Susan Rothstein

        Counterfactuals
        Ana Arregui

        Definiteness
        Cécile Meier

        Dimensions of meaning
        Daniel Gutzmann

        Discourse particles
        Patrick G. Grosz

        Distributivity, Collectivity, and Cumulativity
        Lucas Champollion

        Donkey Anaphora
        Adrian Brasoveanu & Jakub Dotlacil

        Ellipsis and Identity
        Daniel Hardt

        Epistemic Modality
        Igor Yanovich

        E-Type Pronouns
        Rick Nouwen

        Evaluative Predicates beyond fun and tasty
        Carla Umbach

        Evidentials
        Sarah Murray

        Exclamatives
        Elena Castroviejo

        Expressives
        Elin McCready

        Family Resemblance and Prototypes
        Galit Sassoon

        Free choice disjunction
        Marie-Christine Meyer

        Free Choice Items and Modal Indefinites
        "Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Paula Menéndez-Benito"

        Free Relatives
        Radek Šimík

        Gradable adjectives and degree expressions
        Marcin Morzycki

        Graded Modality
        Daniel Lassiter

        Idioms
        Manfred Sailer

        Imperatives
        Magda Kaumann

        Imperfectivity
        Ashwini Deo

        Indefinite-interrogative affinity
        Edgar Onea

        Index-Dependence and Embedding
        Orin Percus

        Indexicality
        Isidora Stojanovic

        Indicative Conditionals
        Katrin Schulz & Robert van Rooij

        Information Structure
        Beáta Gyuris

        Intensional Transitive Verbs
        Florian Schwarz

        Intentional Identity
        Robert van Rooij

        Intervention effects
        Clemens Steiner-Mayr

        Inverse linking constructions
        Malte Zimmermann

        Kinds of (Non)Specificity
        "Donka F. Farkas & Adrian Brasoveanu"

        Lexical aspect (Aktionsart)
        Hana Filip

        Lexical decomposition
        Irene Rapp & Arnim von Stechow

        Linguistic relativity: From Whorf to now
        Jürgen Bohnemeyer

        Literal vs enriched meaning
        Paul Elbourne

        Logical Omniscience
        Paul Egré

        Matrix and embedded presuppositions: projection, accommodation, cancellation, and ambiguities
        Raj Singh

        Measure phrases
        Greg Scontras

        Mixed Quotation
        Emar Maier

        Modal concord
        Janneke van Wijnbergen-Huitink

        Modal Subordination: It would eat you first!
        Craige Roberts

        Modal-Temporal Interactions
        "Anamaria Falaus & Brenda Laca"

        Modified Numerals
        Benjamin Spector

        Negative Indefinites and negative concord
        Doris Penka

        Negative polarity
        Vincent Homer

        Nominal vs. Adverbial Quantification
        Stefan Hinterwimmer

        Nominalizations: The Case of Nominalizations of Modal Predicates
        Friederike Moltmann

        Nonlocal adjectival modification
        Bernhard Schwarz

        Non-restrictive nominal modification
        Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

        Noun Incorporation
        "Sandra Chung & William A. Ladusaw"

        Pluractionality
        Ana Müller + Luciana Sanchez-Mendes

        Possible Worlds Semantics for Pictures
        Dorit Abusch

        Pragmatic Accommodation
        "Mikhail Kissine & Myrto Pantazi"

        Presuppositional Binding
        Rob van der Sandt

        Progressive: The Imperfective paradox
        Alessandro Zucchi

        Prosodic focus
        Michael Wagner

        Quantifiers, Scope, and Pseudo-Scope
        Wolfgang Sternefeld

        Quantity Implicatures
        Uli Sauerland + Andreea Nicolae

        "Questions and interrogatives, exhaustivity vs. quantificational variability"
        Paul Hagstrom

        Representing Intensionality
        Thomas Ede Zimmermann

        Rhetorical Relations
        "Katja Jasinskaja & Elena Karagjosova"

        Semantic Change
        Dirk Geeraerts

        Semantic Parameters and Universals
        Sigrid Beck

        Semantics of English intonation: A leopard? A leopard!
        Hubert Truckenbrodt

        Semantics vs. Pragmatics
        Daniel Gutzmann

        Sequence of Tense
        Yael Sharvit

        Spatial prepositions and locatives in formal semantics
        Marcus Kracht

        Speaker’s Reference
        Barbara Abbott

        Strong and Weak Nominals
        Louise McNally

        Systematic Polysemy
        Johannes Dölling

        Temporal Properties of Noun Phrases
        Judith Tonhauser

        Tense and Temporal Adverbs
        Daniel Altshuler

        The Interpretation of Tense
        "Toshiyuki Ogihara & Kiyomi Kusumoto"

        The Linguistic and Philosophical Status of ‘Impossible Words’
        John Collins

        The Name and Nature of Neg-Raising
        Jon Robert Gajewski

        The Parameters of Indirect Speech
        Regine Eckardt

        The Partee Paradox
        Sebastian Löbner

        The Perfect
        Atle Grønn & Arnim von Stechow

        The Semantics and Pragmatics of Appositives
        Philippe Schlenker

        The subjunctive
        Josep Quer

        Topic
        Satoshi Tomioka

        Type Shifting: The Partee Triangle
        Herman Hendriks

        Vagueness and Natural Language Semantics
        "Heather Burnett & Peter Sutton"

        Weak necessity
        Aynat Rubinstein

        Wide Scope Indefinites
        Cornelia Ebert

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