Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology

by Danny D. Steinberg, Leon A. Jakobovits

Overview

This 1978 book is a collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other. Papers on philosophy from Charles Caton, David Wiggins, William Alston, H. P. Grice, Paul Ziff, Gilbert Harman, Leonard Linsky, P. F. Strawson, Keith Donnellan, Zeno Vendler, John Searle, W. V. Quine: on linguistics Howard Maclay, Noam Chomsky, James McCawley, George Lakoff, Jerrold Katz, Uriel Weinrich, D. Terence Lagendoen, Paul and Carol Kiparsky, Charles Fillmore, Edward Bendix, Mansfred Bierwisch, R. M. W. Dixon, Kenneth Hale: on psychology Dannt Steinberg, Charles E. Osgood, David McNeill, Eric H. Lenneberg, Jerry A. Fodor, George Miller, Thomas Bever and Peter Rosenbaum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521204996
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/30/1974
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.38(d)

Table of Contents

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.