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What It All Means

What It All Means

What It All Means

Semantics for (Almost) Everything

by Philippe Schlenker

ISBN: 9780262047432

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 22, 2022

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.
Semantics as Science

Semantics as Science

Semantics as Science

by Richard K. Larson

ISBN: 9780262539951

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 22, 2022

An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.
Syntax in the Treetops

Syntax in the Treetops

Syntax in the Treetops

by Shigeru Miyagawa

ISBN: 9780262543491

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 3, 2022

A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context.
Quotations as Pictures

Quotations as Pictures

Quotations as Pictures

by Josef Stern

ISBN: 9780262543132

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 15, 2022

The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures.
Cynicism

Cynicism

Cynicism

by Ansgar Allen

ISBN: 9780262537889

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2020

A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.
Irony and Sarcasm

Irony and Sarcasm

Irony and Sarcasm

by Roger Kreuz

ISBN: 9780262538268

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 18, 2020

A biography of two troublesome words.
A Course in Semantics

A Course in Semantics

A Course in Semantics

by Daniel Altshuler, Terence Parsons and Roger Schwarzschild

ISBN: 9780262042772

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 3, 2019

An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology.
’And’

'And'

'And'

Conjunction Reduction Redux

by Barry Schein

ISBN: 9780262035637

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 21, 2017

A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.
The Geometry of Meaning

The Geometry of Meaning

The Geometry of Meaning

Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

by Peter Gärdenfors

ISBN: 9780262533751

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 24, 2017

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.
Subjunctive Conditionals

Subjunctive Conditionals

Subjunctive Conditionals

A Linguistic Analysis

by Michela Ippolito

ISBN: 9780262519649

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 13, 2013

A proposal for a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English.
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