Definitions

Definitions

1. Syntax

   • Well-formed sequences of linguistic forms

2. Semantics

   • Linguistic forms and entities in the world in a relationship

3. Pragmatics

   • Speaker and contextual meaning, inferences from listeners and expression of relative distance. Uses of linguistics forms.

4. Deixis

   • It is a term that means pointing with language
     • Person deixis
       • The speaker, the addressee (Pronouns, Possessive affixes of nouns, Agreement affixes of verbs)
     • Spatial deixis
       • Usage of adverbs in terms of distance (here and there)
         • deictic projection
     • Temporal deixis
       • Usage of proximal forms (now and then)

5. Reference

   • Referring expresions
     • Definite
       • Proper nouns, noun phrases
     • Indefinite
       • 1. Physically present. 2. Entities assumed to exist. 3. Entities that don't exist.