Portal:Semantics

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

Fundamental issues Meaning and use Ambiguity -- Felicity condition -- Gricean maxims -- Meaning -- Meaning postulate -- Meaning theories Denotation and reference Connotation -- Cumulative reference -- Denotation -- Equivalence -- Individual constant -- Individual term -- Individual variable -- Intension Compositionality Compositionality Principle -- Funktionale Applikation -- Idiom -- Implicature -- Interpretation function -- Interpretive rules -- Lambda-abstraction Major branches of semantics Lexical semantics Antonym -- Cohyponym -- Holonym -- Hyperonym -- Hyponym -- Kohyponym -- Meronym Sentence semantics Agent -- Beneficiary -- Declarative sentence -- Direktive -- Echo question -- Exclamative sentence -- Experiencer -- Expressive -- Illocutionary force -- Irrealis -- Jussiv -- Kohortativ -- Konditional(is) -- Konjunktiv -- Kutscherimperativ -- Modality Situation semantics Event time -- Internally caused situation Major approaches to semantic analysis Cognitive semantics Formal semantics Structuralist semantics 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 Adjectival semantics Verbal semantics Aspect Semantics of function words Connective -- 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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