Understanding Semantics, Second Edition

Students: Chapter Resources

Chapter 1

Checklist of Key Notions

1.1  Levels of meaning

• Levels of meaning
  • expression meaning
  • utterance meaning
  • communicative meaning
• content words
• function words
• lexical meaning
• sentence meaning
• utterance meaning
  • context of utterance, CoU
  • reference
  • truth
  • meaning shifts
  • inferences
• communicative meaning
  • speech act theory

1.2  Sentence meaning and compositionality

• composition
  • compositional word meaning
  • grammatical meaning
  • rules of composition
  • bottom-up
  • Principle of Compositionality
• word formation
  • productive
  • derivation
  • conversion
  • compounds

1.3  Semantics: its scope and limits

• I-language
• interfaces of sentence meaning

Artwork

• Figure 1.1 The process of composition
• Table 1.1 Three levels of meaning

© Sebastian Löbner 2013