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The philosophical and scientific study of meaning. Sometimes considered to be the same thing as semiotics, semology, or semasiology, which have overlapping meanings. This is a relatively new field of study, and several pioneers who largely worked independently of one another each felt the need to coin a new name for the new discipline, resulting in a variety of terms for the same subject. The word semantics is widely preferred as the name for the doctrine of meaning, particularly linguistic meaning. Semiotics denotes the study of sign-using behaviour in general. -- Based on britannica.com entry

Subcategories

• Dynamic Semantics
• Generative Semantics
• Lexical Semantics
• Metaphor
• Questions
• Semantics and Pragmatics
• Semantics of Logic
• Situation Semantics

Resources in This Category

• Comparison of inflection and derivation

  http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/ComparisonOfInflectionAndDeriv.htm
  Compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between inflection and derivation.

• Concepts in the Lexicon

  http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/ontology/lexicon.htm
  Report by John F. Sowa, discussing the role of the lexicon in conceptual knowledge.

• Semantics Archive

  http://www.semanticsarchive.net/
  Scholarly research paper exchange for language semanticists. Browseable by author or date; submission and update forms, users guide.

• The Formal Approach to Meaning

  http://www.msu.edu/user/abbottb/formal.htm
  Short survey of semantics of natural language by Barbara Abbott, at University of Michigan. Focuses upon Montague semantics, and tries to give a feel for the main open problems in the field.

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