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Construing Experience Through Meaning
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 170.00The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning;... more...
Recent Trends in Meaning?Text Theory
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 158.00The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories. Founded by I. Mel’cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a “prominent outsider” theory. The picture changed since then, though. MTT gained importance... more...
Formale Semantik und natürliche Sprache
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 350.00Modern linguistics makes increasing use of abstract theories to describe the human capacity for language. This textbook provides a clear overview of the current theoretical concepts and analytical methods; in addition, it explains the technical foundations of formal semantics. It is structured as an aid to teaching and learning, with large numbers... more...
Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830?1930
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 188.00It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If it comes into view at all, it is usually assumed to... more...
Switch Reference and Universal Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 195.00Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for referential tracking. Formally, switch-reference is almost always... more...
Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (2011)
Walter de Gruyter 2011; US$ 150.00Die Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG) zählt zu ihren satzungsgemäßen Aufgaben die Durchführung von Jahrestagungen, auf denen jeweils die laufenden sprachhistorischen Diskussionen in ausgewählten thematischen Bereichen reflektiert werden. Auf diese Weise wird ein wechselndes, aber stets aktuelles Bild sprachhistorischer Forschung... more...
Meaning and Universal Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 180.00This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear to have concrete exponents in all languages. For six... more...
Meaning and Universal Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 180.00This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal grammar is constituted by the inherent grammatical properties of some 60 empirically established semantic primes, which appear to have concrete exponents in all languages. For six... more...
Reference and Referent Accessibility
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 173.00The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation... more...









