Understanding Semantics, Second Edition

Students: Chapter Resources

Chapter 13

Checklist of Key Notions

12.1  Barsalou frames

• frame
• frame referent
• attribute
• value
• constraint
• functional concept

12.2  Verbs and frames

• deverbal nouns
• argument frame

12.3  Nouns and frames

• metonymy
• affordance
• frame compound
• argument compound
• value compound
• synthetic compound

12.4  Frames and composition

• composition
• features
• prototypes

Artwork

• Figure 13.1 Formation and compositional interpretation of nanajuroku
• Figure 13.2 The general scheme of semantic composition
• Figure 13.3 The general scheme of the translation procedure
• Figure 13.4 Referents and arguments of two sentences
• Figure 13.5 The five one-place m-predicates of the model
• Figure 13.6 Two-step interpretation assignment in formal semantics
• Figure 13.7 Semiotic 'triangle' for possible world semantics
• Table 13.1 Categories of expressions and types of values
• Table 13.2 Intensions and extensions

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