Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — xv, 969 pages. — (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 33.1). — ISBN 978-3-11-022661-4.Foundations of semantics
Meaning in linguistics
Meaning, intentionality and communication
(Frege on) Sense and reference
Reference: Foundational issues
Meaning in language use
Compositionality
Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues
History of semantics
Meaning in pre-19th century thought
The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century
The influence of logic on semantics
Formal semantics and representationalism
Methods in semantic research
Varieties of semantic evidence
Methods in cross-linguistic semantics
Formal methods in semantics
The application of experimental methods in semantics
Lexical semantics
Semantic features and primes
Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs
Thematic roles
Lexical Conceptual Structure
Idioms and collocations
Sense relations
Dual oppositions in lexical meaning
Ambiguity and vagueness
Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview
Semantic underspecification
Mismatches and coercion
Metaphors and metonymies
Cognitively oriented approaches to semantics
Cognitive Semantics: An overview
Prototype theory
Frame Semantics
Conceptual Semantics
Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure
Word meaning and world knowledge
Theories of sentence semantics
Model-theoretic semantics
Event semantics
Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language
Theories of discourse semantics
Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction
Discourse Representation Theory
Dynamic semantics
Rhetorical relations
