Semantics, Volumes 1–2

Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics, Volumes 1–2. Cambridge University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1977

Pages cited

1-2

DOI registrant

Cambridge University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139165693matched

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

6 citations across 6 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.

• Referent
  • This conserved decision sequence is the basis for Prime status.
• 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.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Publisher review extracts place Lyons 1977 as a semantic treatment of sense, reference and semiotic systems, but say nothing about symbolic representation as the convention-bound subset or about inferential licensing.

    “a discussion of sense, reference and denotation, a general chapter on structural semantics and semantic field theory, and an excellent account of sense relations of various kinds.”

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Domain-specific

• Componential analysis
  • … elicited or corpus evidence, feature inventory and value system, decomposition matrix, contrast and diagnostic tests, culturally salient distinctions and residual or gradient meanings are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the invariant under changed notation, scale, dataset, jurisdiction, or implementation..
• Lexical Converse Relation
  • Replacing one predicate by its converse and exchanging the participants yields a semantic paraphrase, not a negation.

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