Frontmatter -- 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