Explorations in Semantic Theory

Explorations in Semantic Theory
Author: Uriel Weinreich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1972-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027920485

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Semantics

Semantics
Author: Danny D. Steinberg
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1971-10-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521078221

Includes contributions by R.M.W. Dixon - A method of semantic description; K.L. Hale - A note on a Walbiri tradition of antonymy, both listed separetely in bibliography.

Principles of Semantic Networks

Principles of Semantic Networks
Author: John F. Sowa
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1483221148

Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge provides information pertinent to the theory and applications of semantic networks. This book deals with issues in knowledge representation, which discusses theoretical topics independent of particular implementations. Organized into three parts encompassing 19 chapters, this book begins with an overview of semantic network structure for representing knowledge as a pattern of interconnected nodes and arcs. This text then analyzes the concepts of subsumption and taxonomy and synthesizes a framework that integrates many previous approaches and goes beyond them to provide an account of abstract and partially defines concepts. Other chapters consider formal analyses, which treat the methods of reasoning with semantic networks and their computational complexity. This book discusses as well encoding linguistic knowledge. The final chapter deals with a formal approach to knowledge representation that builds on ideas originating outside the artificial intelligence literature in research on foundations for programming languages. This book is a valuable resource for mathematicians.

Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics

Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics
Author: Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1980
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027225060

The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of linguistic communication that also includes pragmatics. The tension between the psycho-formalist and the socio-functional views could be resolved in a synthesis whereby both the psychological and social natures of language are fully acknowledged. Semantics and pragmatics, representing these two natures in the study of meaning, have distinct goals, which can be defined more clearly and pursued more effectively to the extent that both their distinctness and their interdependence are recognized.

Semantic Theory

Semantic Theory
Author: Ruth M. Kempson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1977-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521292092

An introduction to the central topics of linguistic semantics and the philosophy of language, assuming no special knowledge of philosophy or logic.

On Semantics

On Semantics
Author: Uriel Weinreich
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1980
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Uriel Weinreich was of the innovative and creative thinkers in the field of semantics in the twentieth century. This volume contains all of Weinreich's writings on semantics, including a number of papers that were not published in his lifetime. It includes the first paper on the universals of semantic theory, an analysis of the fundamental concepts of semantics and semiotics, and a critique of lexicography.

Structuring Events

Structuring Events
Author: Susan Rothstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470759100

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories. Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

Semantic Theory

Semantic Theory
Author: Jerrold J. Katz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1972
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Semantic Cognition

Semantic Cognition
Author: Timothy T. Rogers
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262182393

A mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge that uses distributed connectionist networks as a starting point for a psychological theory of semantic cognition.