LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Proper Noun, Pragmatics, Cognitive Model
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Semantics: the study of the meaning of words and phrases in sentences. The president of the us who was president in 1862 . The tallest ever us president conclusion: they have the same extension, but different intension (associated with different mental representation) Compositional semantics: the study of how sentence get their meaning . Meaning of a sentence = truth conditions: meaning of words in the sentence, rule for how those meanings combined combined based on grammatical rule. Adjectives = properties: happy, sad, male, female (not all of adjectives refer to properties, these are some examples) Verbs = properties: smile, frown (not all of verbs refer to properties, these are some examples) Words like all, some, none, etc, they allow us to describe the relationship between two sets, rather than two words/properties, they allow us to treat nouns, adjectives, and verbs on equal footing since they"ve all sets. All the women are smiling smile women smile women.
