Portal:Semantics

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

Fundamental issues Meaning and use Context dependence -- Cooperative Principle -- Felicity condition -- Fixed-context assumption -- Gricean maxims -- Implicature -- Meaning -- Meaning postulate -- Meaning theories -- Use-mention distinction Denotation and reference Binding -- Cataphoric relation -- Connotation -- Cumulative reference -- Denotation -- Extension -- Equivalence -- Individual constant -- Individual term -- Individual variable -- Intension -- Koreferenz -- Reference 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 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

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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