Concise encyclopedia of semantics/ Brown.Keith

Front Cover; Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics; Copyright Page; The Editor; Alphabetical List of Articles; Introduction; Contributors; A; Accessibility Theory; Bibliography; Acquisition of Meaning by Children; Conventionality and Contrast; In Conversation; Making Inferences; Pragmatics and Meaning; Another Approach; Sources of Meanings; Summary; Bibliography; Anaphora Resolution: Centering Theory; Anaphora Resolution with Centers of Attention; Centering Theory: Modeling Local Coherence with Centers of Attention; Centering Theory and Anaphora Resolution; Unspecified Aspects of Centering. Applications of Centering Theory as a Model of Local CoherenceBibliography; Anaphora, Cataphora, Exophora, Logophoricity; Defining Anaphora, Cataphora, and Exophora; NP-Anaphora; The Syntactic Approach; The Semantic Approach; The Pragmatic Approach; VP-Anaphora; A Typology of VP-Anaphora; VP-Ellipsis: Properties, Issues, and Analyses; Properties; Issues; Analyses; Logophoricity; Defining Logophoricity; Cross-Linguistic Marking of Logophoricity; A Typology of Languages with Respect to Logophoricity; Some Implicational Universals with Respect to Logophoricity; Bibliography. Antonymy and IncompatibilityIncompatibility and Contrast; Antonymy and Opposition; Gradable Contrariety (Classical Antonymy, Polar Opposition); Complementarity (Contradiction); Directional Antonyms; Other Types of Opposition; Research Issues; Contrast and Lexical Development; A Lexical Relation?; Discourse Functions and Constructions; Defining Antonymy; Bibliography; Aristotle and Linguistics; Bibliography; Aspect and Aktionsart; Phases and Boundaries; Aspect Theories and Their Historical Development; Bibliography; Assertion; Bibliography; B; Boole and Algebraic Semantics; Bibliography; C. Categorial Grammar, Semantics inIntroduction; Montague Semantics; Lexical Semantics; Quantifiers and Scope; Anaphora; Reflexives; Pronouns; Computational Semantics for Categorial Grammars; Conclusion; Bibliography; Categorizing Percepts: Vantage Theory; Bibliography; Relevant Website; Category-Specific Knowledge; Principles of Organization; Modality-Specific Hypotheses; Domain-Specific Hypotheses; Feature-Based Hypotheses; Clues from Cognitive Neuropsychology; Explaining Category-Specific Semantic Deficits; Clues from Functional Neuroimaging; Conclusion; See also; Bibliography; Causatives. Defining Causative ConstructionsTypes of Causative Constructions; The Semantics of Causatives: Two Major Types of Causation; Causative Continuum and Causation Types; Bibliography; Character versus Content; Content/Character Distinction and Semantics; Content/Character Distinction and Philosophy; Bibliography; Classifiers and Noun Classes; Noun Classes; Noun Classifiers; Numeral Classifiers; Classifiers in Possessive Constructions; Verbal Classifiers; Locative Classifiers; Deictic Classifiers; Bibliography; Cognitive Semantics; Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Semantics.