On Semantics / / Uriel Weinreich; ed. by William Labov, Beatrice S. Weinreich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Weinreich, Uriel,
• HerausgeberIn: Labov, William,; Weinreich, Beatrice S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part I. The Study of Meaning --; 1. Semantics and Semiotics --; 2. Travels through Semantic Space --; 3. On the Semantic Structure of Language --; Part II. Semantics Within the Generative Framework --; 4. Explorations in Semantic Theory --; 5. Some Tasks for Semantics --; 6. Problems in the Analysis of Idioms --; Part III. Lexicography --; 7. Dictionaries of the Future: A Set of Parameters for Descriptive Semantics --; 8. Lexicographic Definition in Descriptive Semantics --; 9. [Soviet] Lexicology --; Part IV. Brief Reviews and Proposals --; 10. Webster’s Third: A Critique of its Semantics --; 11. Review of Ullmann’s Précis de sémantique française --; 12.Review of Vygotsky’s Thought and Language --; 13. Draft Proposal: on the Semantic Structure of Natural Language --; Bibliography --; Author Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512819267; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512819267
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Uriel Weinreich; ed. by William Labov, Beatrice S. Weinreich.

Uriel Weinreich was of the innovative and creative thinkers in the field of semantics in the twentieth century. This volume contains all of Weinreich's writings on semantics, including a number of papers that were not published in his lifetime. It includes the first paper on the universals of semantic theory, an analysis of the fundamental concepts of semantics and semiotics, and a critique of lexicography.