Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication the material gathered here
is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important
semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience it will be of great value to linguists
cognitive scientists philosophers and computer scientists working on natural language. The
book covers theories of lexical semantics cognitively oriented approaches to semantics
compositional theories of sentence semantics and discourse semantics. This clear elegant
explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working
in the area.
