Semantics
An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology

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
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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.

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