Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics Allan Brown Hardback Elsevier Science

Concise Encyclopedia of SemanticsAuthor(s): Keith Allan, Keith Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United Kingdom\nImprint: Elsevier Science Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780080959689, 978-0080959689\nSynopsis\nConcise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as grammatical semantics, where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense.