The third edition of this popular textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to semantics for students new to the field. Explores the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of researchContains new solutions to chapter exercises in order to familiarize the student with the practice of semantic descriptionCompletely revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developmentsIncludes new sections on classifiers and noun classes, as well as conceptual integration