Natural Language Semantics

by Keith Allan and Alasdair Allan

Book Overview

Natural Language Semantics discusses fundamental concepts for linguistic semantics. This book combines theoretical explanations of several methods of inquiry with detailed semantic analysis and emphasises the philosophy that semantics is about meaning in human languages and that linguistic meaning is cognitively and functionally motivated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631192972
• ISBN13: 9780631192978
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"