LINGUIST List 9.1231

Sun Sep 6 1998

Books: Avail for review: Semantics, Pragmatics

Editor for this issue: Andrew Carnie <carnielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Andrew Carnie, Available for Review: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax

The three books listed below are in the LINGUIST office and now
available for review. If you are interested in reviewing
a book (or leading a discussion of the book); please contact 
our book review editor, Andrew Carnie, at:

	carnielinguistlist.org

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SEMANTICS

Carpenter, Bob (1997) Type-Logical Semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge MA

	Based on an introductory course on NL semantics, this book
	presents type-logical grammar and the range fo linguistic phenomena
	that can be handled in Categorial Grammar.

SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX

Forget et al. (1998) Negation and Polarity. John Benjamins Pub. co. 


SEMANTICS:

Bayer, Samuel (1997) Confessions of a Lapsed NeoGrammarian. Events and
		Arguments in Compositional Semantics. Garland Press.

PRAGMATICS:

Reboul, Anne and Jacquess Moeschler (1998) Pragmatique du discours: 
	De l'interpretation de l'enonce a l'interpretation du discours.
	Armand Colin, Paris

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