Semantics

This 1978 book is a collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other.

Preface; Acknowledgements and references to reprinted articles; Part I. Philosophy: Overview Charles E. Caton; Section 1. Meaning: 1. On sentence-sense, word-sense and difference of word sense. Towards a philosophical theory of dictionaries David Wiggins; 2. How does one tell whether a word has one, several or many senses? William P. Alston; 3; A reply to Mr Alson David Wiggins; 4. Meaning H. G. Price; 5. Three levels of meaning Gilbert H. Harman; Section 2. Reference: 1. Reference and referents Leonard Linsky; 2. Identifying reference and truth-values P. F. Strawson; 3. Reference and definite descriptions Keith Donnellan; 4. Singular terms Zeno Vaendler; 5. The problem of proper names John R. Searle; 6. The inscrutability of reference W. V. Quine; Part II. Linguistics: Overview Howard Maclay; Section 1. The Role of Semantics in a Grammar: 1. Deep structure, surface structure, and semantic interpretations Noam Chomsky; 2. Where do noun phrases come from? James D. McCawley; 3. On generative semantics George Lakoff; Section 2. Meaning, Presupposition and Reference: 1. Semantic theory Jerrold J. Katz; 2. Explorations in semantic theory Uriel Weinreich; 3. Presupposition and relative well-formedness George Lakoff; 4. Presupposition and assertion in the semantic analysis of nouns and verbs in English D. Terence Langendoen; 5. Fact Paul Kiparsky and Carol Kiparsky; Section 3. The Lexicon: 1. Types of lexical information Charles J. Fillmore; 2. The data of semantic description Edward H. Bendix; 3. On classifying semantic features Manfred Bierwisch; 4. A method of semantic description R. M. W. Dixon; 5. A note on a Walbiri tradition of antonymy Kenneth Hale; Part III. Psychology: Overview Danny Steinberg; Section 1. Theoretical Issues: 1. Where do sentences come from? Charles E. Osgood; 2. Are there specifically linguistic universals? David McNeill; 3. Language and cognition Eric H. Lenneberg; 4. Could meaning be an rm? Jerry A. Fodor; Section 2. Empirical Studies: 1. Empirical methods in the study of semantics George A. Miller; 2. Some lexical structures and their empirical validity Thomas G. Bever and Peter S. Rosenbaum; Index.