What is Semantics?
Sematics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, either simple or complex, taken in isolation
What means expression meaning?
Expression meaning refers to what the sentence is about and under which condictions it would be true
What is utterance meaning?
Utterance meaning is an act of fixing the reference of variables in an utterance and thus determining whether the sentence is in fact true in a particular context.
What is communicative meaning?
It is a speech act, that is expressed in an utterance, i.e., does the speaker actually want to convey that information or care whether it is true
What is the Principle of Compositionality?
The meaning of a complex expression is determined by the lexical meanings of its components, their grammatical meanings and the syntactic structure of the whole.
What is a polysemy?
Soundform has mutiple related meanings connected to a concept
What is the formula for universal quantifier?
Ɐ x (A(x) → B(x))
What is the formula for existential quantifier?
Ǝ x (A(x) ∧ B(x))
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