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Semantics: Shiela Aringo

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning at different levels, from individual words to sentences. It examines lexical semantics, phrasal semantics, sentential semantics, and pragmatics. Compositional semantics calculates the truth value of a sentence by combining the meanings of its parts, taking the speaker's knowledge of truth conditions as basic. Some sentences like tautologies are always true based solely on the meaning of their elements and structure, while contradictions are always false.

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Semantics: Shiela Aringo

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning at different levels, from individual words to sentences. It examines lexical semantics, phrasal semantics, sentential semantics, and pragmatics. Compositional semantics calculates the truth value of a sentence by combining the meanings of its parts, taking the speaker's knowledge of truth conditions as basic. Some sentences like tautologies are always true based solely on the meaning of their elements and structure, while contradictions are always false.

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Semantics

Shiela Aringo
Semantics
• Study of linguistic meaning of morphemes, words,
phrases, and sentences
• Lexical semantics
• Phrasal or sentencial semantics
• Pragmatics
Truth Conditions
• It takes the speaker's knowledge of truth conditions
as basic
• Also called compositional semantics because it
calculates the truth value of a sentence by
composing or putting together the meaning of
smaller units.
Tautologies
• The truth is guaranteed solely by the meaning of
their parts and the way they are put together
Contradictions
• Some sentences are always falls
Entailment

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