-
helps people identify the
objects to
which an
expression refers. Some
semanticists focus primarily on
sense or
primarily on
reference in
their analysis...
-
grammarians argued that
meaning is
driven by an
underlying syntax,
generative semanticists posited that
syntax is
shaped by an
underlying meaning. This intellectual...
- in a
variety of
languages including ****anese, Russian, and Hungarian.
Semanticists have
proposed a
variety of
explanations for homogeneity,
often involving...
- prototypes,
which cognitive semanticists generally argue is the
cause of polysemy.[citation needed]
Cognitive semanticists argue that truth-conditional...
-
approach to language. Many
formal semanticists are
philosophers of language,
differing from
linguist semanticists only in
their metaphysical ****umptions...
-
world of evaluation.
Since the
seminal work of
Angelika Kratzer,
formal semanticists have
adopted a more
finely grained notion of this set as
determined by...
- they make no
sense by
themselves (for example, the and of).: 77 Some
semanticists have put
forward a
theory of so-called
semantic primitives or semantic...
- be
treated as the
agent in a sentence. This
solves problems that most
semanticists have with
deciding on the
number and
quality of
thematic roles. For example...
- equivalents. In
order to
explain how
speakers are able to
understand them,
semanticists have
proposed a
variety of
formalisms including systems of
dynamic semantics...
- and in Hungarian, they
agree only when they are used predicatively:
Semanticist Barbara Partee classifies adjectives semantically as intersective, subsective...
