Riemer Nick (Editor). The Routledge Handbook of Semantics

Routledge, 2015. — xvi, 533 pages. — (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics). — ISBN: 0415661730.The Routledge Handbook of Semantics provides a broad and state-of-the-art survey of this field, covering semantic research at both word and sentence level. It presents a synoptic view of the most important areas of semantic investigation, including contemporary methodologies and debates, and indicating possible future directions in the field.Written by experts from around the world, the 29 chapters cover key issues and approaches within the following areas:meaning and conceptualisation;
meaning and context;
lexical semantics;
semantics of specific phenomena;
development, change and variation.The Routledge Handbook of Semantics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.Foundational issues
(Descriptive) Externalism in semantics
Internalist semantics: meaning, conceptualization and expression
A history of semantics
Approaches
Foundations of formal semantics
Cognitive semantics
Corpus semantics
Meaning and conceptualization
Categories, prototypes and exemplars
Embodiment, simulation and meaning
Linguistic relativity
Meaning and context
Semantics and pragmatics
Contextual adjustment of meaning
Lexical semantics
Lexical decomposition
Sense individuation
Sense relations
Semantic shift
Semantics of specific phenomena
The semantics of nominals
Negation and polarity
Varieties of quantification
Lexical and grammatical aspect
Tense
Modality
Event semantics
Participant roles
Compositionality
The semantics of lexical typology
Extensions
Acquisition of meaning
Expressives
Interpretative semantics
Semantic processing