Tag: Semantics

Free Download L. Michael Hall, "Matrix Model: The 7 Matrices of Neuro-Semantics"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 1890001228 | PDF | pages: 427 | 16.1 mb
Are you ready to wake up to the matrix of frames that you were born into? Are you ready to take charge of your mental-emotional matrices that govern how you see things, how you feel, and your skills? The 7 Matrices Model tells the story of how we all carry with us frames of mind that we map from experiences and ideas. It describes the mental and emotional frames that govern our lives. This book begins where "Frame Games", "Meta-States", and "Secrets of Personal Mastery" end.

Free Download Roland Greene, "Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes"
English | ISBN: 022600063X | 2013 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these words changed over the course of the sixteenth century and what their changes indicate about broader forces in science, politics, and other disciplines.

Free Download Cliff Goddard, "Cross-Linguistic Semantics"
English | 2008 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 9027205698 | PDF | 3,4 mb
Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework, originated by Anna Wierzbicka. The opening chapters give a state-of-the-art overview of the NSM model, propose several theoretical innovations and advance a number of original analyses in connection with names and naming, clefts and other specificational sentences, and discourse anaphora. Subsequent chapters describe and analyse diverse phenomena in ten languages from multiple families, geographical locations, and cultural settings around the globe. Three substantial studies document how the metalanguage of NSM semantic primes can be realised in languages of widely differing types: Amharic (Ethiopia), Korean, and East Cree. Each constitutes a lexicogrammatical portrait in miniature of the language concerned. Other chapters probe topics such as inalienable possession in Koromu (Papua New Guinea), epistemic verbs in Swedish, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the expression of "momentariness" in Berber, ethnogeometry in Makasai (East Timor), value concepts in Russian, and "virtuous emotions" in Japanese. This book will be valuable for linguists working on language description, lexical semantics, or the semantics of grammar, for advanced students of linguistics, and for others interested in language universals and language diversity.

Free Download Chinese Lexical Semantics: 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26-28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers by Jia-Fei Hong
English | PDF | 2019 | 828 Pages | ISBN : 3030040143 | 158.9 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, in May 2018.

Free Download Kristin Börjesson, "The Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 3110333376 | EPUB | pages: 339 | 1.5 mb
Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating so-called literal from non-literal (or figurative) meaning, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics, e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, unarticulated constituents, indexicalism, (generalised) conversational implicatures, speech acts, levels of meaning in interpretation, the role of context in interpretation, the nature of lexical meaning. Notably, rather than taking a solely theoretical perspective, the book integrates psycho- and neurolinguistic perspectives, considering experimental results concerning the (differences in) processing of the various types of meaning covered. In terms of topics covered and perspectives taken, it is equally well suited for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of linguistics and/or philosophy of language.

Free Download Daisuke Bekki, "Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics: 19th International Conference, LENLS19, Tokyo, Japan, November 19-2"
English | ISBN: 3031439767 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume LNCS 14213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference, LENLS 2019, held in November 2022, in Tokyo, Japan.

Free Download Sabrina Noccetti, "Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition"
English | ISBN: 1443877301 | 2015 | 495 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book is about how toddlers learn their first adjectives, such as, for example, red, big and tasty. Adjectives denote properties and enter child vocabularies later than words for objects (such as apple and tree) and actions (such as eat and run), probably due to lower frequencies in parental speech and greater conceptual complexity. Adjective acquisition has received relatively little attention in child language research. Furthermore, cross-linguistic studies of adjective learning are virtually non-existent. This book represents the first systematic analysis of how children learning typologically different languages acquire adjective form, function and meaning. The cross-linguistic comparisons undertaken in the book provide valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition. For each of the languages studied in this volume, the development of adjective semantics is studied in tandem with the development of morphology by testing two hypotheses: (a) the acquisition trajectory in the domain of adjectival morphology is determined by the typological properties of the target language; (b) irrespective of the languages being acquired, adjective learning is facilitated by universal conceptual mechanisms such as comparison and contrast.

Free Download Chinese Lexical Semantics: 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26-28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers by Jia-Fei Hong
English | PDF | 2019 | 828 Pages | ISBN : 3030040143 | 158.9 MB

Free Download Usha Udaar Reena Ashem, Gurmeet Kaur, "Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of South Asian Languages"
English | ISBN: 1443873209 | 2017 | 157 pages | PDF | 741 KB
This collection offers fresh perspectives on the syntax and semantics of South Asian languages, drawing on novel data from Meiteilon, Haryanavi, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, and Bangla. It covers three major grammatical aspects: namely, the status of primitive categories, clausal and nominal structure, and case/phi-agreement. All the contributions here provide comprehensive descriptive discussions followed by analyses couched within the generative paradigm, thereby offering detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of important issues in South Asian languages.

Free Download Usha Udaar Reena Ashem, Gurmeet Kaur, "Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of South Asian Languages"
English | ISBN: 1443873209 | 2017 | 157 pages | PDF | 741 KB
This collection offers fresh perspectives on the syntax and semantics of South Asian languages, drawing on novel data from Meiteilon, Haryanavi, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, and Bangla. It covers three major grammatical aspects: namely, the status of primitive categories, clausal and nominal structure, and case/phi-agreement. All the contributions here provide comprehensive descriptive discussions followed by analyses couched within the generative paradigm, thereby offering detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of important issues in South Asian languages.