''Semantics'' is a 1977 two-volume book on
semantics
Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...
by
Sir John Lyons
Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics.
Education
John Lyons was born and brought up in Stretford, Lancashire (now in Trafford). He was initially educated at St Ann's RC School, Stretford ...
.
Reception
The book was reviewed by Jonathan Cohen,
Ă–sten Dahl
Ă–sten Dahl (; born 4 November 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to tense and aspect in linguistic typology. Dahl finished his PhD at the University of Gothenburg and subsequ ...
, George A. Miller and Katherine Miller.
References
External links
Semantics, vol 1Semantics, vol 2
1977 non-fiction books
Books in semantics
Cambridge University Press books
Linguistics textbooks
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