The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics: 5 Volume Set (The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics)

An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thorough investigation of issues and phenomena central to the development of modern semantics and its interfaces. Presenting in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book investigates competing analyses and approaches, examines their conceptual foundations, and evaluates them as applied to various languages. This authoritative collection enables scholars and students of semantics—as well as those from associated areas of linguistics such as syntacticians—to broaden and deepen their knowledge of the subject and the developments in the field.

Presenting over 100 case studies, the collection of chapters within this Companion is organized in alphabetical order for ease of reference. This key reference work:

• Provides detailed coverage of the major developments in linguistic semantics over the past several decades
• Demonstrates how research can identify differences and similarities in a variety of languages
• Presents studies that encompass well-delimited empirical areas and play important roles in theoretical debates
• Identifies topics via famous example sentences

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics is a valuable reference work for scholars, researchers, academics, and students in linguistics and related areas.

This work is also available as an online resource at www.companiontosemantics.com

Daniel Gutzmann is Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests are semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. He is the author of Use-Conditional Meaning (2015) and The Grammar of Expressivity (2019), as well as co-editor of Beyond Expressives (2013), Approaches to Meaning: Composition, Values, and Interpretation (2014), and Secondary Content (2019).

Lisa Matthewson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests center on semantic variation and universals. She is co-editor of Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork (2015) and editor of Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2008) and is author of When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws: A Grammatical Analysis of St'át'imcets Oral Narratives (2005) and Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from Salish (1998).

Cécile Meier is Senior Lecturer at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. She has worked on the interpretation of adjectives and comparison constructions and on definiteness. She is a co-editor of Approaches to Meaning: Composition, Values, and Interpretation (2014) and Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism (2016).

Hotze Rullmann is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items (2001) and has published on a variety of topics in semantics, including questions, comparatives, negative polarity, focus particles, modality, and the interaction of modals with tense and aspect.

Thomas Ede Zimmermann is Professor of Formal Semantics at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. His main research interests include descriptive compositional semantics, the logical foundations of semantics, and philosophy of language. In addition to his book publications, which include the co-authored Introduction to Semantics (2013), he has also published more than 50 research papers and is former editor of the Linguistics and Philosophy journal.