Includes bibliographical references and index.

Semantics in language and linguistics -- Some basic linguistic notions -- Linguistic meaning -- Lexical meaning, lexical items and lexical units -- Lexicographic definition -- Lexical relations -- Lexical functions -- The lexical stock of a language and the dictionary -- Sentential meaning and meaning relations between sentences -- Semantic representation -- Deep-syntactic representation -- Semantic rules.

"An advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as an organized set of rules that connect a representation of meaning (Semantic Representation) to a representation of the sentence (Deep-Syntactic Representation)"--