Semantics

Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics. Cambridge University Press.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1977

Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139165693matched

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Deixis
  • Stephen Lyons's Semantics (1977) systematically mapped the deictic inventory of natural language, establishing deixis as central rather than peripheral to linguistic meaning.

    This sourceCh. 15 ('Deixis, Space and Time') maps the deictic inventory of natural language and draws the deixis-vs-anaphora distinction (extralinguistic situation vs linguistic antecedent).

• Markedness
  • - Semantics: Positive vs. negative gradable adjectives

    This sourceStandard reference on linguistic meaning: develops the distinction between sense and reference, treats lexical gaps and translation incommensurability across languages, and shows how grammaticalized social distinctions (T/V address, honorifics) encode different conventional meanings.

• Symbolic Representation
  • Symbolic representation is the convention-bound subset, a distinction Lyons (1977) makes precise in his semantic treatment of how different sign-meaning relations license different inferential moves.

    This sourceStandard reference on linguistic meaning: develops the distinction between sense and reference, treats lexical gaps and translation incommensurability across languages, and shows how grammaticalized social distinctions (T/V address, honorifics) encode different conventional meanings.

Domain-specific

• Lexical Converse Relation
  • Replacing one predicate by its converse and exchanging the participants yields a semantic paraphrase, not a negation.

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