What is semantic

What is semantic

1. ACCORDING TO

   • Hurford and Hesley
     • Semantics is the study of meaning in language
   • Lyons
     • Semantics is the study of meaning
   • Saeed
     • Semantics is the study of meaning communicated through language
   • Lobner
     • Semantics is the part of linguistic that is concerned with meaning
   • Frawley
     • Linguistic semantics is the study of literal, descontextualized, grammatical meaning
   • Kreidler
     • Linguistic semantics is the study of how languages organize and express meaning
   • History of Semantic
   • The most succesful theory of the XXth century
     • Chomskyan Generativism
       • Chomsky argued that the human Brain, contains a limited set of constraints for organizing language. This implie in turn that all languages have a common structural basis: the set of rules known as universal grammar.
         • Formal Semantics
           • Is concerned with a very limited set of statements that can be truth about the truth can be determinated
             • Formal semantics is the natural choice for people working in rule based on natural language proccesing
     • Syntax
       • For the syntax we assume that sentences have a hierachical constituent structure that groups words and subconstituents into constituents
         • Cognitive Semantics
           • It tries to root meaning in human experience of the world which it finds in human cognition