What is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics (Fundamentals of Linguistics)

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field’s key ideas about how language works.

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning

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• A Course in Phonetics
• Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
• Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (Lecture Notes)
• Articulatory Phonetics: Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages, 4th Edition
• Syntax: A Generative Introduction
• Vowels and Consonants
• Introducing Sociolinguistics, 2nd edition
• Introduction to Pragmatics
• Formal Semantics:Cann (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)