Portal:Semantics

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

Fundamental issues Meaning and use Arbitrariness of the sign -- Context dependence -- Cooperative Principle -- Descriptive meaning -- Emotive meaning -- Felicity condition -- Fixed-context assumption -- Gricean maxims -- Implicature -- Meaning -- Meaning postulate -- Meaning theories -- Non-descriptive meaning -- Use-mention distinction Denotation and reference Binding -- Cataphoric relation -- Connotation -- Cumulative reference -- Denotation -- Extension -- Equivalence -- Icon -- Iconicity -- Individual constant -- Individual term -- Individual variable -- Intension -- Koreferenz -- Reference -- Symbol Interpretation and truth Analytic truth -- Assignment -- Axiom -- Compositionality Principle -- Contingent truth -- Covert category -- Dual (semantics) -- External negation -- Idiom -- Internal negation -- Interpretation -- Interpretive rules -- Katz-Postal-principle -- Left downward monotonicity -- Left upward monotonicity -- Meaning postulate -- Modal logic -- Monotonicity -- Name -- Narrow scope -- Necessary truth -- Opaque context -- Rigid designator -- Truth Semantic metalanguage Atomic formula -- Aussagenlogik -- Boolesche Operatoren -- Formula -- Funktionale Applikation -- Interpretation function -- Lambda-abstraction -- Lambda-operator -- Metalanguage -- Meta-variable -- Predicate logic Major branches of semantics Lexical semantics Ambiguity -- Antonym -- Cohyponym -- Complementary -- Converses -- Equipollent antonyms -- Holonym -- Hyperonym -- Hyponym -- Kohyponym -- Lexical ambiguity -- Lexical semantics -- Meronym -- Opposition -- Overlapping antonyms -- Reversives -- Synonymy Sentence semantics Affected object -- Agent -- Anomaly -- Argument -- Arity -- Beneficiary -- Case relation -- Case role -- Conditional sentence -- Contradiction -- Declarative sentence -- Direktive -- Echo question -- Equivalence -- Ergativität -- Exclamative sentence -- Experiencer -- Expressive -- Homonymy -- Illocutionary force -- Imperative -- Implication -- Implicature -- Irrealis -- Jussiv -- Kāraka -- Kohortativ -- Kommissiv -- Konditional(is) -- Konjunktiv -- Kutscherimperativ -- Modality -- Mutuant -- Negation -- Optativ -- Predicate Situation semantics Alethische Modalität -- Epistemische Modalität -- Event time -- Internally caused situation -- Modality -- Mutual situation

Major approaches to semantic analysis Cognitive semantics Base -- Cognitive grammar -- Cognitive semantics -- Construal -- Conceptualization -- Frame Semantics -- Mental space -- Profile -- Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness -- Metaphors in Politics Formal semantics Generalized Quantifier Theory -- Generative Semantics -- Intensional logic -- Katz-Fodor-semantics -- Logical semantics -- Model -- Model theory -- Montague Grammar -- Predicate logic -- Proof theory Structuralist semantics Componential analysis -- Conceptual Structure -- Semantic feature -- Sense relation Prototype semantics Basic category -- Family resemblance -- Gestalt psychology -- Prototype -- Prototype theory -- Focal Colors 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 Absolute adjectives -- Attributive adjective -- Comparative -- Extensional adjective --Intensional adjective -- Predicative adjective -- Relational adjectives -- Superlative Verbal semantics Aspect -- Aspectual classes -- Absentive -- Collective predicate -- Completive aspect -- Distributive predicate -- Factive predicate -- Inchoative -- Konjunktiv -- Optativ -- Tense and aspect Semantics of function words Adversative coordination -- Anaphoric pronoun -- Antecedent -- Conjunction -- Connective -- Deictic pronoun -- Deixis -- Donkey anaphora -- Downward monotonicity -- Focus particle -- Generalized quantifier -- Negative polarity item Associations Gesellschaft für Semantik Journals Journal of Semantics Semantics and Pragmatics Book series Explorations in Semantics (Blackwell) Syntax and Semantics (Emerald) Other ressources Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics Semantics archive Online-Wörterbuch zur Semantik und Pragmatik Biographical articles Gottlob Frege - John Lyons

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