Semantics
SEMANTICS conveniently divides into two branches, the theory of designation and/or denotation and the theory of meaning. The former constitutes extensional, the latter intensional semantics....
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Events in Semantic Theory
It is an ancient idea that many verbs are used to describe events—things that happen, in places and at times. Frank Plumpton Ramsey introduced an important twist, in t...
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Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning
There are two dominant approaches to semantics. One sees the task of semantics as to provide a systematic account of the truth conditions of (actual and potential) senten...
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Propositional Attitudes: Issues in Semantics
Propositional attitudes like knowledge, belief, and assertion play an important foundational role for semantic theory, the goal of which is to specify the ...
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Quantifiers in Natural Language
Quantifiers in natural language correspond to words such as every, some, most, few, and many others.
The Semantics of Determiners
What is the semantics of expressions l...
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Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning. More specifically, semantics is concerned with the systematic assignment of meanings to the simple and complex expressions of a language. The best way to u...
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Semantics, History of [addendum]
In the 1960s, the semantics in vogue in linguistics seems to have favored some kind of decompositional approach. Consider kinship terms. Taking P to mean "paren...
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Semantics, History Of
The scope of this article is in part determined by the following restrictions. (1) Although the development of semantics in the twentieth century equals or surpasses all that was...
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Syntactical and Semantical Categories
The basis for any theory of syntactical categories is the linguistic fact that in all natural languages there are strings of (one or more) words which are mutuall...
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The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) did almost all his work in philosophy of language during the last twenty years of his life, primarily under the influen...
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Xerox Corp. says its new search engine based on semantics will analyze the meaning behind questions and documents to help researchers find information more quickly.FactSpotter promises to help by r...
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Worldwide users are just getting familiar with the concept of Web 2.0, through which they can collaborate and share Internet content.Yet some technologists already are discussing the dawn of an era...
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Malapropisms, it seems, aren't exclusive to President Bush. France's Socialist presidential hopeful, Segolene Royal, is accused of battering the language of Moliere by speaking of "bravitude" _ whe...
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Two of Sen. Larry Craig's children said Tuesday they questioned him explicitly about "what exactly happened in that bathroom" where he was arrested in a sex sting and believe his assertions that he...
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War On Terror: In a sly semantic move, a Democrat House Committee secretly ordered the removal of all references to the "Global War On Terror," nonchalantly claiming it wasn't political. Who are th...
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LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A good place to see the true
frontline in Microsoft's battle with Google is deep in the
bowels of the British Library in London. In a room under the library's red brick b...
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A new Homeland Security program aims to analyze existing, legally collected computer data, not gather new personal information on U.S. citizens, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday in defending ...
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A military judge has refused a Pentagon request to reconsider his dismissal of charges against a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan.The judge, Army Col. P...
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Police investigating corruption allegations against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will announce whether they believe they have enough evidence for an indictment on the eve of a U.S.-hosted Mideast pea...
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DAMASCUS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United States has agreed to
put the occupied Golan Heights on the agenda of the Annapolis
peace talks but Syria will wait for confirmation before deciding
whether ...
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Semantics
Events in Semantic Theory
Xerox rolls out semantics-based search
