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

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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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