JOHN I. SAEED

The third edition of this popular textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to semantics for students new to the field.- Explores the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of research.- Contains new solutions to chapter exercises in order to familiarize the student with the practice of semantic description.- Completely revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments Includes new sections on classifiers and noun classes, as well as conceptual integration.

Revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments in the field, Semantics, 4th Edition, presents an engaging and accessible introduction to the study of meaning in language for students new to the field of semantics.- Covers all of the basic concepts and methods of the field of semantics, as well as some of the most important contemporary lines of research.- Features a series of new exercises, along with their solutions, that are arranged by level of difficulty.- Addresses componential theory, formal semantics, and cognitive semantics, the three main current theoretical approaches to semantics.- Includes revisions and updates that reflect the most recent theoretical developments.