On Semantics

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. 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