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