AN INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS

of theoretical linguistics, and it is often an obligatory course taken by students majoring in English
or in linguistics . Such students may find some interest in this book, especially when similar books are either not available or too complicated for undergraduates .
This book contains nine chapters, discussing these topics respectively : introduction, referring expressions, similarity of senses, dissimilarity of senses, ambiguity of senses, types of meaning, analysis of meaning, semantic fields, and finally the relation between meaning and logic . Every chapter ends in an adequate number of exercises