An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thorough investigation of issues and phenomena central to the development of modern semantics and its interfaces. Presenting in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book investigates competing analyses and approaches, examines their conceptual foundations, and evaluates them as applied to various languages. This authoritative collection enables scholars and students of semantics—as well as those from associated areas of linguistics such as syntacticians—to broaden and deepen their knowledge of the subject and the developments in the field.
Presenting over 100 case studies, the collection of chapters within this Companion is organized in alphabetical order for ease of reference. This key reference work:
Provides detailed coverage of the major developments in linguistic semantics over the past several decades
Demonstrates how research can identify differences and similarities in a variety of languages
Presents studies that encompass well-delimited empirical areas and play important roles in theoretical debates
Identifies topics via famous example sentences
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics is a valuable reference work for scholars, researchers, academics, and students in linguistics and related areas.

This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia. Chapters offer systematic and detailed analyses of scores of individual nouns across a range of conceptual domains, including 'people', 'places', and 'living things', with each analysis fully grounded in a unified methodological framework. They not only cover central theoretical issues specific to the analysis of the domain in question, but also empirically investigate the different types of meaning relations that hold between nouns, such as meronymy, hyponymy, taxonomy, and antonymy.
The collection of studies show how in-depth meaning analysis anchored in a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective can lead to unexpected insights into the common and particular ways in which speakers of different languages conceptualize, categorize, and order the world around them. This unique volume brings together a new generation of semanticists from across the globe, and will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, biology, and philosophy.

自然语言的逻辑语义学(简称逻辑语义学)是依据现代逻辑的思想或采用现代逻辑的工具研究自然语言的句法生成尤其是语义组合规律的学科，是实现自然语言计算机信息处理的先期工作。《BR》　　本书以汉语信息处理为导向，以现代汉语中的反身代词、照应省略结构、话题句、兼语句、连动句、复杂谓词并列结构等具有典型性的句法-语义现象为研究素材，展开了一系列逻辑语义学的研究，即针对汉语独有特征的范畴类型逻辑以及组合范畴语法的研究。这些研究一方面可以充实逻辑语义学研究的理论宝库，促进现代逻辑的发展；另一方面也能够为汉语的计算机信息处理提供理论指导。通过把逻辑语义学对自然语言，尤其是对汉语形式化研究的成果应用到汉语的信息处理领域，我国计算机自然语言处理的思路将得到拓宽，效率将得到提高。

《词汇语义的动态模式》是俄罗斯著名语言学家Е.В.帕杜切娃担纲的俄罗斯科学院全俄科学技术信息研究所的国家级研究项目“俄罗斯词汇语义数据库”的子课题。帕杜切娃发现动词的语义要素及题元结构的变化与词义的变化之间存在某种具有参数性质的对应关系。通过对这些参数(动词的分类范畴和主题类别，题元的角色配位和分类类别)的变化的分析，词义能够得到有规律的区分。而这些参数本身也是动词语义的重要构成要素。这种参数化的分析方法在实证研究中得到了证实，从而有效解决了多义词研究面临的两项基本任务：词义间的联系问题和词义的衍生方向问题。这种动态的研究方法建立在对乔姆斯基语言生成观反思的基础上，从语言阐释的角度来探索人的语言能力。这种方法继承和发展了莫斯科语言学派的思想，又与多义词的传统研究和认知语言学对多义现象的研究迥然不同，反映了当今词义研究的词典化倾向。

This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized scalar implicature and seeks to identify the common core of the polarity system by examining many of its manifestations as well as the choices that determine its diversity. To do so he reassesses the relations between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and in the process makes startling insights into the relation of syntax to logic. Rudolf Carnap's classic, The Logical Syntax of Language, defines syntax as a lexicon and a set of formation rules and logic as a set of inference rules. Modern generative linguistics maintains a similar modular approach: a combinatorial apparatus is said to generate structures over which semantic and pragmatic relations, such as presupposition and implicature, are defined. This book argues by contrast that many structures typically perceived as syntactically deviant owe their status to their logical properties, in other words to whether they are contradictory or analytically true in specific ways. This alters the Carnapian view. The characterization of grammatical structure requires a more direct role of logical inferences: the functional lexicon of grammar comes, Professor Chierchia shows, with a set of inference rules that crucially and directly determine grammaticality patterns. Logic in Grammar presents the results of the author's decade-long work on pragmatics and scalar implicatures and extends his long-term project on how humans reason and categorize the world. It is a book that will interest linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists alike.

This series supports the study of core topics that form substantial and identifiable parts of Linguistics degree courses as taught in the later years of undergraduate study. Each volume provides an in-depth introduction to a particular linguistic subdiscipline, while also engaging with recent research on the subject.

CONTENTS
1 The Fundamrntal Question
2 Putting a Meaning Together from Pieces
3 More about Predicates
4 Modifiers
5 Complexities of Referring Expressions
6 Quantifiers
7 Extensional vs. Intensional Contexts
8 Tense, Aspect, and Modality
9 Propositional Attitudes
10 The pragmatics of What's Given
11 The Pragmatics of Inference
12 Formal Semantics Today

本书研究表经历的句子的语义，分析汉语经历体标记“过”。一般对“过”的分析着重于其时貌与表时间的功能，而本书从“量化”的角度来探讨。过去的研究偏重于陈述汉语表经历的句子的特点，但是没有进一步解释为什么表经历的句子有这些特点。本书提出经历体标记“过”应分析为数量副词或者量化副词，其功能与英文的always，often和sometimes类似。这些副词所表达的不是单一特定的事件，而是一种事件，这种事件发生数次。
叶萌,毕业于美国德州大学，获外语教学硕士、语言学博士学位。现为莱斯大学资深讲师，语言中心副主任及中文项目负责人，教授中文语言、文化以及语言学课程。目前研究方向着重于语言习得、汉字与阅读教学以及语言评估。曾获莱斯大学Sarofim教师奖。叶博士也是美国大学理事会的顾问，主要职责为培训高中中文老师。