Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Word Semantics from Different Points of View. An Introduction to the Present Volume 1
5. Chapter I : Possible Worlds
6. Adverbs of Causation 21
7. The Notional Category of Modality 38
8. Words and Worlds 75
9. The Meaning of Scalar Particles in German 107
10. Meanings, Intensions, and Stereotypes. A New Approach to Linguistic Semantics 133
11. Quotations as Indexicals and Demonstratives 151
12. Truth and Universals 168
13. Chapter II: Meaning Spaces
14. Feasible Fuzzy Semantics. On Some Problems of How to Handle Word Meaning Empirically 193
15. Formal Semantics for the Progressive of Stative and Non-Stative Verbs 210
16. Simple Present Tense and Progressive Periphrases in German 222
17. Archetypal Dynamics in Word Semantics: An Application of Catastrophe Theory 234
18. An Empirical Approach to Frametheory: Verb Thesaurus Organization 297
19. Frame Representations and Lexical Semantics 320
20. Word Semantics, Lexicon Systems, and Text Interpretation 343
21. Chapter III: Semantic Fields and their Extensions
22. Structural Semantics 381
23. Lexical Analysis and Language Theory 414
24. Some Comments on Lexical Fields and their Use in Lexicography 462
25. Some Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of German glauben 469
26. Illocutionary Verbs, Illocutionary Acts, and Conversational Behaviour 485
27. Word Semantics and Conversational Analysis 500
28. Index 510
29. Backmatter 516