Natural Language SemanticsISBN: 978-0-631-19296-1
Hardcover
552 pages
February 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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"The field of semantics within linguistics needs Allan's book to
stand as a marker of the clash of two traditions (the
formalist/logical tradition and the pragmatic discourse-based
tradition) and as a partially successful attempt to integrate these
traditions and to produce a workable synthesis of them. The work is
extremely impressive from the point of view of scholarship. Allan
is clearly widely read, and has given deep thought to the central
problems of the field." James R Hurford, University of
Edinburgh.
"Allan's book is a wonderful and useful addition to the
semantics literature. It covers all topics, from formal to
conceptual, to typological, and does so with insight and
accessibility. I especially like the problems, which are well
thought out and effective teaching tools. Allan is to be praised
for taking on the immensely difficult task of writing this book and
producing such a good book." William Frawley, University of
Delaware.
Every computational linguist should own at least one semantics textbook. Allan's book stands apart from many other texts in the way it conveys a real sense of the variety and fecundity of language as spoken by living, breathing human beings." Computational Linguistics