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
techniques of contemporary semantic theory. Requiring no special
background knowledge, the book starts with everyday observations
about word meaning and useand then hightlights the role of
structure in the analysis of the meanings of phrases and clauses,
zooming in on the fascinating and vexing question of how speakers
manage to meaningfully communicate with sentences and texts they
have never come across before. At the same time, the reader becomes
acquainted with the modern, functionalist characterization of
linguistic meaning in terms of reference (extension) and
information (intension), and learns to apply technical tools from
formal logic to analyzing the meaning of complex linguistic
expressions as being composed by the meanings of their parts. Each
of the nine main chapters contains a variety of exercises for
self-study and classroom use, with model solutions in the appendix.
Extensive English examples provide ample illustration.
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