LIGN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Logical Truth, Vintage Clothing
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Semantics: the study of meaning in language. I sentence you to three weeks of probation. I now pronounce you married: declarative sentences can thus be shown to be true or false, will waved , there is a set of people who waved. If will is in that set, this sentence is true. If will is not, this sentence is false: compositional semantics, syntactic structure, coupled with understanding of meaning of individual phrases, allows the determination of meaning via rules. A bad car or a citrus fruit. Spiced ham or commercial email: will cut up the center of the paper , structural/syntactic ambiguity, i"m not sure what syntactic structure you"re going for there. Two people kissing two wives, or one wife kissing two people: bob and joe are married. Bob and joe are married to each other. Bob and joe are married, mike and adam are single: every student hates a professor .
