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For each date in the Course Schedule, read the material specified for that date.
The required readings will gradually be made available in .pdf form on
the Ling/Psych 315 Owlspace site for use online or printing out.
The references below will allow you to obtain them
yourself in hard copy via the library or, if you find some
of the book items of more extended interest, book purchase.
Some dates in the Course Schedule might list a recommended
reading. These are related readings for those interested in going
deeper into the subject, and for graduate students who are planning to
specialize in semantics. The full list of recommended and other
relevant readings in semantics is given under Other References
below the reading list. I have copies of almost all the Other
References to lend for photocopying.
1. Bolinger, Dwight. 1975 [1968]. Meaning. The Segmentation of Reality. Excerpt
from Aspects of language Chapter 7, 2nd edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 185-192.
2. Tyler, Stephen A. 1969. Order out of chaos. In Cognitive
anthropology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pp. 6-13.
3. Lehrer, Adrienne. 1974. Semantic fields. In Semantic fields and lexical
structure. Amsterdam & London: North Holland Publishing. New York:
American Elsevier Publishing Co., pp. 15-35.
4. Lakoff George. 1987. Case Study 2: Over. In Women, Fire, and dangerous
things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, pp. 416-461.
5. Fillmore, Charles. 1978. On the organization of semantic information in
the lexicon. In Papers from the parasession on the lexicon. Chicago
Linguistic Society, ed. by Donka Farkas, Wesley Jacobsen, and Karol
Todrys. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (Dept. of Linguistics,
University of Chicago), pp. 165-173.
6. Fillmore, Charles. 1975. An alternative to checklist theories of
meaning. In Proceedings of the first annual meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, ed. by Cathy Cogen et al. Berkeley: Berkeley
Linguistics Society, Dept. of Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley,
pp. 123-131.
7. Clark, Eve V. and Herbert H. Clark. 1978 [1977]. Universals, relativity, and
language processing. In Universals of human language, ed. by Joseph
H. Greenberg, Vol. I. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
pp. 225-277. (Reprinted from Psychology and Language by Eve V. Clark
and Herbert H. Clark, Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1977.)
(Possible) 8. Wierzbicka, Anna. 1985. Cups and mugs: The semantics of simple
artifacts. In Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Ann Arbor, Mich.:
Karoma Publishers pp. 1-40.
9. Turner, Mark. 1996 Image schemas. Excerpt from The Literary Mind,
Oxford University Press, pp. 17-32.
10. Talmy, Leonard. Lexicalization patterns: Semantic structure in
lexical forms. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Language typology and syntactic
description. Vol. 3, Grammatical categories and the
lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 57-76 and 102-125.
(Possible) 11. Traugott, Elizabeth. 1985. On regularity in semantic change. In
Journal of Literary Semantics 14. Institute of Languages and
Linguistics, University of Kent at Canterbury, England: Julius Groos,
pp. 155-173.
Bierwisch, Manfred. 1970. Semantics. In New Horizons in Linguistics,
ed. by John Lyons. Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, pp. 166-184.
Bolinger, Dwight. 1965. The Atomization of Meaning. Language,
Katz, J.J. and J. Fodor. The Structure of a Semantic Theory. Language
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. 1980. Concepts we live by; The
Systematicity of metaphorical concepts; Highlighting and hiding;
Orientational metaphors. In Metaphors we live by Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 3-21.
Langacker, Ronald. 1988. A view of linguistic semantics. In Topics in
Cognitive Linguistics, ed. by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn. Amsterdam &
Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 49-90.
Lee, David. Chapter from An Introduction to Cognitive
Linguistics.
Miller, George, and Christiane Fellbaum. 1991. Semantic networks of
English. In Lexical and conceptual semantics, ed. by Beth Levin and
Steven Pinker. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, pp. 197-229.
Palmer, F.R. Logic and Language. From Semantics.
Rosch, Eleanor. 1978. Principles of categorization. In Cognition and
categorization, ed. by E. Rosch and B. Lloyd. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum, pp. 27-48.
Ullman, Stephen. 1962. Ambiguity. Chapter 3 of
Semantics: An introduction to the science of meaning. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell.
Ullman, Stephen. 1962. Meaning change. Chapter 8 of Semantics: An
introduction to the science of meaning, Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
pp. 193-235.
Ungerer, Friedrich, and Hans-Joerg Schmidt. 1996. An
Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London and New
York: Longman.
© 2001-2007 Suzanne Kemmer
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