Designed for students with no prior background in the subject, this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to formal semantics, giving learners a solid grounding in a wide range of semantic phenomena. It covers numerous key topics, including generalized quantifier theory, referential opacity, aktionsarten, thematic roles and lexical conceptual structure, tense and aspect, and event semantics. Each chapter is supported with many examples that illustrate the theory in context, and practical exercises encourage active engagement and the development of analytical skills.
This book is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying semantics and is well-suited to modules in the philosophy of language, linguistic meaning, and formal semantics.
New to this edition:
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Thoroughly revised and updated, with additional content on type theory, lambda calculus, semantic composition, temporal reference in narrative, and discourse representation theory
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Exercises now organized by difficulty level, ranging from beginner to highly advanced
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