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 -- Implicature -- Meaning -- Meaning postulate -- Meaning theories Denotation and reference Analytic truth -- Assignment -- Connotation -- Cumulative reference -- Denotation -- Extension -- Equivalence -- Individual constant -- Individual term -- Individual variable -- Intension -- Koreferenz 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) -- Implication -- Interpretation function -- Interpretive rules -- Katz-Postal-principle -- Left downward monotonicity -- Left upward monotonicity -- Meaning postulate -- Modal logic -- Monotonicity -- Name -- Negative polarity item -- Necessary truth -- Opaque context -- Rigid designator Metalanguage Atomic formula -- Aussagenlogik -- Boolesche Operatoren -- External negation -- Formula -- Internal negation -- Lambda-abstraction -- Lambda-operator -- Meta-variable -- Narrow scope Major branches of semantics Lexical semantics Ambiguity -- Antonym -- Cohyponym -- Complementary -- Holonym -- Hyperonym -- Hyponym -- Kohyponym -- Lexical ambiguity -- 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 -- Homonymy -- Illocutionary force -- Imperative -- Irrealis -- Jussiv -- Kāraka -- Kohortativ -- Kommissiv -- Konditional(is) -- Konjunktiv -- Kutscherimperativ -- Modality -- Mutuant -- Negation -- Optativ Situation semantics Alethische Modalität -- Epistemische Modalität -- Event time -- Internally caused situation -- Modality -- Mutual situation Major approaches to semantic analysis Cognitive semantics Formal semantics Generalized Quantifier Theory -- Generative Semantics -- Intensional logic -- Katz-Fodor-semantics -- Logical semantics -- Model (semantics) -- Montague Grammar 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 -- Dvanda compound -- Endocentric compound -- Existential interpretation -- Exocentric compound -- Generic interpretation -- Inalienable possession -- Mass noun Adjectival semantics Extensional adjective -- Intensional adjective Verbal semantics Aspect -- Aspectual classes -- Absentive -- Collective predicate -- Completive aspect -- Distributive predicate -- Factive predicate -- Inchoative -- Konjunktiv Semantics of function words Adversative coordination -- Anaphoric pronoun -- Antecedent -- Conjunction -- Connective -- Deictic pronoun -- Deixis -- Donkey anaphora -- Downward monotonicity -- Focus particle -- Generalized quantifier 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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