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'''Meaning and use'''<br>
 
'''Meaning and use'''<br>
[[Ambiguity]] -- [[Context dependence]] -- [[Cooperative Principle]] -- [[Felicity condition]] -- [[Fixed-context assumption]] -- [[Gricean maxims]] -- [[Implicature]] -- [[Meaning]] -- [[Meaning postulate]] -- [[Meaning theories]] <br>
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[[Context dependence]] -- [[Cooperative Principle]] -- [[Felicity condition]] -- [[Fixed-context assumption]] -- [[Gricean maxims]] -- [[Implicature]] -- [[Meaning]] -- [[Meaning postulate]] -- [[Meaning theories]] <br>
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'''Denotation and reference'''<br>
 
'''Denotation and reference'''<br>
[[Analytic truth]] -- [[Assignment]] -- [[Connotation]] -- [[Cumulative reference]] -- [[Denotation]] -- [[Extension]] -- [[Equivalence]] -- [[Individual constant]] -- [[Individual term]] -- [[Individual variable]] -- [[Intension]] -- [[Koreferenz]]<br>
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[[Binding]] -- [[Cataphoric relation]] -- [[Connotation]] -- [[Cumulative reference]] -- [[Denotation]] -- [[Extension]] -- [[Equivalence]] -- [[Individual constant]] -- [[Individual term]] -- [[Individual variable]] -- [[Intension]] -- [[Koreferenz]]<br>
'''Compositionality'''<br>
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[[Compositionality Principle]] -- [[Funktionale Applikation]] -- [[Idiom]] -- [[Implicature]] -- [[Interpretation function]]  -- [[Lambda-abstraction]] <br>
 
 
'''Interpretation and truth'''<br>
 
'''Interpretation and truth'''<br>
[[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]]<br>
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[[Analytic truth]] -- [[Assignment]] -- [[Axiom]] -- [[Compositionality Principle]] -- [[Contingent truth]] -- [[Covert category]] -- [[Dual (semantics)]] -- [[External negation]] -- [[Idiom]] -- [[Internal negation]] -- [[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]]<br>
'''Metalanguage'''<br>
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[[Atomic formula]] -- [[Aussagenlogik]] -- [[Boolesche Operatoren]] -- [[External negation]] -- [[Formula]] -- [[Internal negation]] -- [[Lambda-abstraction]] -- [[Lambda-operator]] -- [[Metalanguage]] -- [[Meta-variable]] -- [[Narrow scope]]<br>
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'''Semantic metalanguage'''<br>
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[[Atomic formula]] -- [[Aussagenlogik]] -- [[Boolesche Operatoren]] -- [[Formula]] -- [[Funktionale Applikation]] -- [[Interpretation function]] -- [[Lambda-abstraction]] -- [[Lambda-operator]] -- [[Metalanguage]] -- [[Meta-variable]]<br>
  
 
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'''Lexical semantics'''<br>
 
'''Lexical semantics'''<br>
 
[[Ambiguity]] -- [[Antonym]] -- [[Cohyponym]] -- [[Complementary]] -- [[Holonym]] -- [[Hyperonym]] -- [[Hyponym]] -- [[Kohyponym]] -- [[Lexical ambiguity]] -- [[Lexical semantics]] -- [[Meronym]]<br>  
 
[[Ambiguity]] -- [[Antonym]] -- [[Cohyponym]] -- [[Complementary]] -- [[Holonym]] -- [[Hyperonym]] -- [[Hyponym]] -- [[Kohyponym]] -- [[Lexical ambiguity]] -- [[Lexical semantics]] -- [[Meronym]]<br>  
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'''Sentence semantics'''<br>
 
'''Sentence semantics'''<br>
[[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]]<br>
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[[Affected object]] -- [[Agent]] -- [[Anomaly]] -- [[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]]<br>
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'''Situation semantics'''<br>
 
'''Situation semantics'''<br>
 
[[Alethische Modalität]] -- [[Epistemische Modalität]] -- [[Event time]] -- [[Internally caused situation]] -- [[Modality]] -- [[Mutual situation]]<br>
 
[[Alethische Modalität]] -- [[Epistemische Modalität]] -- [[Event time]] -- [[Internally caused situation]] -- [[Modality]] -- [[Mutual situation]]<br>
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'''Cognitive semantics'''<br>
 
'''Cognitive semantics'''<br>
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[[Cognitive grammar]] -- [[Base (in Cognitive Grammar)]]<br>
 
'''Formal semantics'''<br>
 
'''Formal semantics'''<br>
 
[[Generalized Quantifier Theory]] -- [[Generative Semantics]] -- [[Intensional logic]] -- [[Katz-Fodor-semantics]] -- [[Logical semantics]] -- [[Model (semantics)]] -- [[Montague Grammar]]<br>
 
[[Generalized Quantifier Theory]] -- [[Generative Semantics]] -- [[Intensional logic]] -- [[Katz-Fodor-semantics]] -- [[Logical semantics]] -- [[Model (semantics)]] -- [[Montague Grammar]]<br>
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'''Historical semantics'''
 
'''Historical semantics'''
  
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== '''History of Semantics''' ==
 
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'''Semantics and ancient philosohy'''<br>
 
'''Semantics in the 19th century'''<br>
 
'''Semantics in the 20th century'''
 
  
 
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[[Extensional adjective]] -- [[Intensional adjective]]<br>
 
[[Extensional adjective]] -- [[Intensional adjective]]<br>
 
'''Verbal semantics'''<br>
 
'''Verbal semantics'''<br>
[[Aspect]] -- [[Aspectual classes]] -- [[Absentive]] -- [[Collective predicate]] -- [[Completive aspect]] -- [[Distributive predicate]] -- [[Factive predicate]] -- [[Inchoative]] -- [[Konjunktiv]]<br>
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[[Aspect]] -- [[Aspectual classes]] -- [[Absentive]] -- [[Collective predicate]] -- [[Completive aspect]] -- [[Distributive predicate]] -- [[Factive predicate]] -- [[Inchoative]] -- [[Konjunktiv]] -- [[Optativ]]<br>
 
'''Semantics of function words'''<br>
 
'''Semantics of function words'''<br>
 
[[Adversative coordination]] -- [[Anaphoric pronoun]] -- [[Antecedent]] -- [[Conjunction]] -- [[Connective]] -- [[Deictic pronoun]] -- [[Deixis]] -- [[Donkey anaphora]] -- [[Downward monotonicity]] -- [[Focus particle]] -- [[Generalized quantifier]]<br>
 
[[Adversative coordination]] -- [[Anaphoric pronoun]] -- [[Antecedent]] -- [[Conjunction]] -- [[Connective]] -- [[Deictic pronoun]] -- [[Deixis]] -- [[Donkey anaphora]] -- [[Downward monotonicity]] -- [[Focus particle]] -- [[Generalized quantifier]]<br>
  
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== '''Ontological domains''' ==
 
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'''Physical objects'''<br>
 
'''Properties'''<br>
 
'''States of affairs'''<br>
 
'''Possible worlds'''<br>
 
  
 
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Semantics
This portal presents the most central topics in the study of meaning.

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Meaning and use
Context dependence -- Cooperative Principle -- Felicity condition -- Fixed-context assumption -- Gricean maxims -- Implicature -- Meaning -- Meaning postulate -- Meaning theories

Denotation and reference
Binding -- Cataphoric relation -- Connotation -- Cumulative reference -- Denotation -- Extension -- Equivalence -- Individual constant -- Individual term -- Individual variable -- Intension -- Koreferenz

Interpretation and truth
Analytic truth -- Assignment -- Axiom -- Compositionality Principle -- Contingent truth -- Covert category -- Dual (semantics) -- External negation -- Idiom -- Internal negation -- 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

Semantic metalanguage
Atomic formula -- Aussagenlogik -- Boolesche Operatoren -- Formula -- Funktionale Applikation -- Interpretation function -- Lambda-abstraction -- Lambda-operator -- Metalanguage -- Meta-variable

Major branches of semantics

Lexical semantics
Ambiguity -- Antonym -- Cohyponym -- Complementary -- Holonym -- Hyperonym -- Hyponym -- Kohyponym -- Lexical ambiguity -- Lexical semantics -- Meronym

Sentence semantics
Affected object -- Agent -- Anomaly -- 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

Situation semantics
Alethische Modalität -- Epistemische Modalität -- Event time -- Internally caused situation -- Modality -- Mutual situation

Major approaches to semantic analysis

Cognitive semantics
Cognitive grammar -- Base (in Cognitive Grammar)
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


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 -- Optativ
Semantics of function words
Adversative coordination -- Anaphoric pronoun -- Antecedent -- Conjunction -- Connective -- Deictic pronoun -- Deixis -- Donkey anaphora -- Downward monotonicity -- Focus particle -- Generalized quantifier


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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