Frontmatter -- Editors' Preface -- Table of Contents -- Word Semantics from Different Points of View. An Introduction to the Present Volume / Eikmeyer, H. J. / Rieser, H. -- Chapter I : Possible Worlds -- Adverbs of Causation / Cresswell, M. J. -- The Notional Category of Modality / Kratzer, Angelika -- Words and Worlds / Lutzeier, Peter Rolf -- The Meaning of Scalar Particles in German / König, Ekkehard -- Meanings, Intensions, and Stereotypes. A New Approach to Linguistic Semantics / Eikmeyer, Hans-Jürgen / Rieser, Hannes -- Quotations as Indexicals and Demonstratives / Grabski, Michael -- Truth and Universals / Bigelow, John C. -- Chapter II: Meaning Spaces -- Feasible Fuzzy Semantics. On Some Problems of How to Handle Word Meaning Empirically / Rieger, Burghard B. -- Formal Semantics for the Progressive of Stative and Non-Stative Verbs / Ballweg, Joachim / Frosch, Helmut -- Simple Present Tense and Progressive Periphrases in German / Ballweg, Joachim -- Archetypal Dynamics in Word Semantics: An Application of Catastrophe Theory / Wildgen, Wolfgang -- An Empirical Approach to Frametheory: Verb Thesaurus Organization / Ballmer, Thomas T. / Brennenstuhl, Waltraud -- Frame Representations and Lexical Semantics / Metzing, Dieter -- Word Semantics, Lexicon Systems, and Text Interpretation / Neubauer, Fritz / Petöfi, János S. -- Chapter III: Semantic Fields and their Extensions -- Structural Semantics / Geckeler, Horst -- Lexical Analysis and Language Theory / Ballmer, Thomas T. / Brennenstuhl, Waltraud -- Some Comments on Lexical Fields and their Use in Lexicography / Ballweg-Schramm, Angelika -- Some Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of German glauben / Pinkal, Manfred -- Illocutionary Verbs, Illocutionary Acts, and Conversational Behaviour / Edmondson, Willis J. -- Word Semantics and Conversational Analysis / Kindt, Walther -- Index -- Backmatter
