Portal:Semantics

Semantics This portal presents the most central topics in the study of meaning.

Fundamental issues Meaning and use Ambiguity -- Context dependence -- Cooperative principle -- Felicity condition -- Fixed-context assumption -- Gricean maxims -- Meaning -- Meaning postulate -- Meaning theories Denotation and reference Analytic truth -- Assignment -- Connotation -- Cumulative reference -- Denotation -- Equivalence -- Individual constant -- Individual term -- Individual variable -- Intension Compositionality Compositionality Principle -- Funktionale Applikation -- Idiom -- Implicature -- Interpretation function -- Lambda-abstraction Interpretation and truth Axiom -- Binding -- Cataphoric relation -- Contingent truth -- Contradiction -- Covert category -- Dual (semantics) -- Interpretive rules Metalanguage Atomic formula -- Aussagenlogik -- Boolesche Operatoren -- External negation -- Formula Major branches of semantics Lexical semantics Ambiguity -- Antonym -- Cohyponym -- Complementary -- Holonym -- Hyperonym -- Hyponym -- Kohyponym -- Meronym Sentence semantics Affected object -- Agent -- Anomaly -- Arity -- Beneficiary -- Case relation -- Case role -- Conditional sentence -- Declarative sentence -- Direktive -- Echo question -- Equivalence -- Ergativität -- Exclamative sentence -- Experiencer -- Expressive -- Illocutionary force -- Irrealis -- Jussiv -- Kohortativ -- Konditional(is) -- Konjunktiv -- Kutscherimperativ -- Modality -- Negation Situation semantics Alethische Modalität -- Epistemische Modalität -- Event time -- Internally caused situation -- Modality Major approaches to semantic analysis Cognitive semantics Formal semantics Structuralist semantics Componential analysis -- Conceptual structure Prototype semantics Historical semantics History of Semantics Semantics and ancient philosohy Semantics in the 19th century Semantics in the 20th century

Lexico-grammatical domains Nominal semantics Abstract noun -- Attributive use -- Bare plural -- Collective noun -- Concrete noun -- Conservativity -- Count noun and mass noun -- Definite -- Definite description -- Definite description -- Determiner -- Dvandva compound -- Endocentric compound -- Existential interpretation -- Exocentric compound Adjectival semantics Extensional adjective -- Intensional adjective Verbal semantics Aspect -- Aspectual classes -- Absentive -- Collective predicate -- Completive aspect -- Distributive predicate -- Factive predicate Semantics of function words Adversative conjunction -- Anaphoric pronoun -- Antecedent -- Conjunction -- Connective -- Deictic pronoun -- Deixis -- Donkey anaphora -- Downward monotonicity -- Focus particle Ontological domains Physical objects Properties States of affairs Possible worlds Associations Gesellschaft für Semantik Journals Journal of Semantics Semantics and Pragmatics Book series Explorations in Semantics (Blackwell) Syntax and Semantics (Emerald) Other ressources Semantics archive Online-Wörterbuch zur Semantik und Pragmatik Biographical Articles Gottlob Frege - John Lyons

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