Book description
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
John I. Saeed
is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the School of Linguistic,
Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College, University of
Dublin. He is the author of several books, including
Somali Reference
Grammar
(second edition, 1993) and
Somali
(1999).
