Situating Semantics:
Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry




John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, is one of a handful of contemporary analytic philosophers to combine the focused approach of most current work in analytic philosophy with the more expansive

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Semantics by Kate Kearns



The main aim of the book is to provide a good understanding of a range of semantic phenomena and issues in semantics, adopting a truth-conditional account of meaning, but without using a compositional formalism. The book assumes no particular background in linguistics of

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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition:
Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations

By Anna Wierzbicka



Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual

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Approaches to Bootstrapping
Vol. 1



Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle
University of Potsdam
Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic

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The Extent of the Literal:
Metaphor, Polysemy and Theories of Concepts



The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author argues for a reconsideration of

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The Syntax of Aspect
Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation



Edited by Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport

This collection of new work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety

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The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition



Edited by Roeland van Hout, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken and Richard J. Towell

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the

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