LINGUIST List 13.1834

Tue Jul 2 2002

Books: Semantics: The Construction of Meaning

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Christine Sosa, The Construction of Meaning by David I. Beaver,Luis D.Casillas Martinez,Brady Z. Clark & Stefan Kaufmann

THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING; 
David I. Beaver (Stanford University), Luis D.Casillas Martinez
(Stanford University), Brady Z. Clark (Stanford University) and Stefan
Kaufmann (Kyoto University and Northwestern University);
paper ISBN:1-57586-376-6, $25.00, 
cloth ISBN: 1-57586-375-8, $67.50, 264 pages. 
CSLI Publications 2002. 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu 
email: pubscsli.stanford.edu.

To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call
their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or
order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature
to locate the book, then order).

Book description:

"The Construction of Meaning" collects leading-edge work on the
semantics and pragmatics of natural language conducted at Stanford
University. Contributors include Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley
Peters, Dag Westerstahl and Arnold Zwicky. The volume includes
research on a number of languages (English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean
and Quechua) and phenomena, including adverbial modification,
classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality,
event semantics, focus, presupposition and quantification. This is an
essential volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in
the study of meaning.