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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If only I read this book earlier
This is a must-read for anyone with an advanced interest in semantics/syntax. If you're looking for an introduction to semantics and have no background at all, I'd combine this book with for instance De Swarts' introduction to semantics. This text is suitable for graduate students.
Published on October 30, 2008 by M. E. Kluck
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good as review for sematicists; Bad as a textbook
This would probably serve as an excellent review for those who have studied semantics and need to be reminded/updated on important topics. As a textbook for novices, though, it is very poor. The text is not written with ease of reading in mind (technical formulas are frequently used to explain points that would be much better explained in words). Technical terms are...
Published on March 21, 2007 by Grad Student
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good as review for sematicists; Bad as a textbook,
By Grad Student (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) (Paperback)
This would probably serve as an excellent review for those who have studied semantics and need to be reminded/updated on important topics. As a textbook for novices, though, it is very poor. The text is not written with ease of reading in mind (technical formulas are frequently used to explain points that would be much better explained in words). Technical terms are used without definitions, and the excercises require the reader to have not only understood the material completely, but to have read between the lines and filled in the gaps in the explanations. There are many typos and there are structural problems as well (use of endnotes instead of footnotes, no comprehensive biliography...). If you have already done quite a lot of semantics, this book may be of use to you; if you are thinking of using it as a class text or as a way to teach yourself this subject, look elsewhere.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If only I read this book earlier,
This review is from: Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) (Paperback)
This is a must-read for anyone with an advanced interest in semantics/syntax. If you're looking for an introduction to semantics and have no background at all, I'd combine this book with for instance De Swarts' introduction to semantics. This text is suitable for graduate students.
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Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Irene Heim (Paperback - January 7, 1998)
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