"Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language"--.

• Contents
• 1. Semantic types across languages
• 2. Count/mass distinctions across languages
• 3. Tense and aspect: Time across languages
• 4. The expression of space across languages
• 5. Theories of meaning change: An overview
• 6. Cognitive approaches to diachronic semantics
• 7. Grammaticalization and semantic reanalysis
• 8. Meaning in psycholinguistics
• 9. Meaning in first language acquisition
• 10. Meaning in second language acquisition
• 11. Conceptual knowledge, categorization, and meaning
• 12. Space in semantics and cognition
• 13. Semantic research in computational linguistics
• 14. Semantics in corpus linguistics
• 15. Semantics in computational lexicons
• 16. Web semantics
• 17. Semantic issues in machine translation
• Index