Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference
work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of
meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest
scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation,
clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification,
simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and
paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses,
methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It
examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on
related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically
oriented studies such as grammatical semantics, where semantics has
made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal
categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or
possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or
conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora.
COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax,
pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how logical
semantics develops and thrives, often in interaction with
computational linguistics.
As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics 2nd edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the
foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and
draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact
and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level
inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work
for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics
inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within
languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently
cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant
not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic
audiences.
* The first encyclopedia ever published in this fascinating and
diverse field
* Combines the talents of the world s leading semantics specialists
* The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and
interpreted in context of related disciplines.
* Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and
internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics
area
* Compact and affordable single volume reference format"
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