Portal:Semantics

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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


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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 -- Basic Color Terms

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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