This series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in
linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book …

Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook
provides an introduction to the subject for undergraduate students. It not only equips …

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic
meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents …

This book offers an introduction to the analysis of meaning. Our outstanding ability to
communicate is a distinguishing feature of our species. To communicate is to convey …

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

An essential property of language is that it is meaningful. The meaningfulness of language
may be manifest in many ways: Language may be used to express emotion, take action …

The study of meaning in language has developed dramatically over the last fifty years.
Semantics is distinctive as it not only presents a general introduction to the topic, including …

Semantics is a bridge discipline between linguistics and philosophy; but linguistics student
are rarely able to reach that bridge, let alone cross it to inspect and assess the activity on the …

This textbook helps undergraduate students of language and linguistics taking their first
steps in one of the core areas of grammar, introducing them to the basic ideas, insights, and …

When the first edition of Semantics appeared in 1976, the developments in this aspect of
language study were exciting interest not only among linguists, but among philosophers …