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1. open.umn.edu › opentextbooks › textbooksEssentials of Linguistics, 2nd Edition - 2nd Edition - Open ...

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   The text is free of interface issues, videos, images, and charts presented in the text appear to be clear and work well in the online format. Links to video lectures are provided in the PDF version and images and charts are clear. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 The text is free of grammatical errors. Cultural Relevance rating: 5

2. ocw.mit.edu › courses › 24-900-introduction-to24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Slides: Semantics

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   Definition: Semantics and meaning . The semantic competence of a speaker: The ability, when presented with a sentence and a situation, to tell whether the sentence is true or false in the situation. To know the meaning of a sentence is to know its truth conditions. –That is, we know what the world would have to look like in

3. www.academia.edu › 20106146 › An_introduction_to(PDF) An introduction to graphology: Definition, theoretical ...

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   Definition Unlike other linguistic terms such as morphology, syntax or phonetics, graphology is a controversial word whose meaning tends to be blurred. This confusion has come about on account of two factors: the non-linguistic meanings attached to this concept and the varied treatment the word has received from dictionaries, manuals and works of reference in general.

4. web.stanford.edu › class › linguist119 LEXICAL SEMANTICS T - Stanford University

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   ing word meanings as unanalyzed symbols like EAT or JOHN or RED. But representing the meaning of a word by capitalizing it is a pretty unsatisfactorymodel. In this chapter we introduce a richer model of the semantics of words, drawing on the linguistic study LEXICAL SEMANTICS of word meaning, a field called lexical semantics.

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5. www.linguistics.fi › julkaisut › SKY2005Aikhenvald, Alexandra (2004) Evidentiality (Oxford Linguistics)

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   introduction and a summary. A definition of the category is given right in the beginning. “Evidentiality is a linguistic category whose primary meaning is source of information […] To be considered as an evidential, a morpheme has to have ‘source of information’ as its core meaning; that is, the unmarked, or default interpretation” (p.3).

6. www.cambridgescholars.com › resources › pdfsForm, Meaning and Function in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

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   Form, meaning and function is a triad which captures the multidimensional character of human language. In terms of communication, it encompasses the signal and its formal organisation (or structure), the concepts, i.e., the meaning conveyed, and the use with all intentions and discourse purposes.

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   What is an evidential morpheme?

   • A definition of the category is given right in the beginning. “Evidentiality is a linguistic category whose primary meaning is source of information [...] To be considered as an evidential, a morpheme has to have ‘source of information’ as its core meaning; that is, the unmarked, or default interpretation” (p.3).

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   Are evidentials a means of implicit person marking?

   • In some languages, like Eastern Pomo, evidentials may be a means of implicit person marking, since they presuppose the involvement of a certain person. (p. 235). Chapter 8 deals with the interaction of evidentiality with categories other than person. These include clause type, negation, modality, and tense and aspect.

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   Is evidentiality a grammatical category?

   • Aikhenvald is particularly intent on establishing evidentiality as a grammatical category in its own right, and preventing it from being included in other categories, especially modality, as has been done frequently before. For Aikhenvald, “marking data source and concomitant categories is ‘not a function of truth or falsity’.

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   Where do evidentials come from?

   • Like most other grammatical categories, the most common source of evidentials is the grammaticalization of lexical categories, first and foremost verbs. Typical examples are verbs of speech which grammaticalize into reported or quotative markers.

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   What is the relationship between evidentials and verb classes?

   • With respect to the lexicon, there is salient interaction between evidentials and certain verb classes. One case that is mentioned throughout the book is that of verbs of internal states, including emotions, desires, physical states etc..

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   How do you define a word?

   • Back at the beginning of the chapter, we said that one way of defining a word is to decompose its meaning into a set of primitive semantics elements or features. We saw one aspect of this method in our discussion of finite lists of thematic roles (agent, patient, instrument, etc).

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8. assets.cambridge.org › 97811084 › 81625An Advanced Introduction to Semantics

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   Meaning-Text theory an approach that treats linguistic knowl-edge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as an organized set of rules that connect a representation of meaning (semantic representation) to a representation of the sentence (deep-syntactic representation). The