This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines will also find it valuable. The introductory section presents the theories, models and frameworks underlying modern neurolinguistics. Then the neurolinguistic aspects of different components of language – phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, and semantics-pragmatics in communication – are discussed. The third section examines reading and writing, bilingualism, the evolution of language, and multimodality. The book also contains three resource chapters, one on techniques for investigating the brain, another on modeling brain functions, and a third that introduces the basic concepts of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. This text provides an up-to-date linguistic perspective, with a special focus on semantics and pragmatics, evolutionary perspectives, neural network modeling and multimodality, areas that have been less central in earlier introductory works.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
the positions of adjectives and
adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained
semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are
to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant
structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and
adverbs, to
highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal
the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and
compositional semantics.
The editors open the book with an
overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the
remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students
of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also
appeal to researchers in philosophy,
psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.
Semantics: A Reader contains a broad selection of classic articles on
semantics and the semantics/pragmatics interface. Comprehensive in the
variety and breadth of theoretical frameworks and topics that it
convers, it includes articles representative of the major theoretical
frameworks within
semantics, including: discourse representation theory, dynamic
predicate logic, truth theoretic semantics, event semantics, situation
semantics, and cognitive semantics.
All the major topics in semantics are covered, including lexical
semantics and the semantics of quantified noun phrases, adverbs,
adjectives, performatives, and interrogatives. Included are classic
papers in the field of semantics as well as papers written especially
for the volume. The volume
comes with an extensive introduction designed not only to provide an
overview of the field, but also to explain the technical concepts the
beginner will need to tackle before the more demanding articles.
Semantics will have appeal as a textbook for upper level and graduate
courses and as a reference
for scholars of semantics who want to the classic articles in their field in one convenient place.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
