Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

3. Sentential semantics

Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

Zeki Hamawand [+-]
University of Kirkuk and University of Sulaimani
Zeki Hamawand is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kirkuk and a senior lecturer at the University of Sulaimani, Iraq. He is the author of several books including Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (Lincom 2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (Equinox 2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (Palgrave 2008), The semantics of English Negative Prefixes (Equinox 2009), and Morphology in English: Word Formation in Cognitive Grammar (Continuum 2011).

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Chapter 3 examines sentential semantics, the branch of semantics which deals with the meanings of phrases and sentences. The aim is to show how the lexicon is organized, how the sentences of a language are interrelated and how their meanings are consequently interpreted. The chapter addresses two concerns. One concern relates to terminology. It introduces the terms used in the study of sentential semantics and defines them in a way that is both simple and clear. The other concern pertains to relation. It introduces the meaning relations which exist between sentences. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 3.1 lays emphasis on the issue of what the term sentence is and what sentence meaning is. Section 3.2 centres on the types of relations which exist between sentences. Section 3.3 concentrates on utterances which require pragmatic inferences. Section 3.4 is concerned with the semantic roles which participants in a sentence fulfil. In all the sections, I pursue three steps. First, I introduce the term. Second, I explain its meaning. Third, I devise an exercise to test its application. Section 3.5 summarizes the main points of the chapter.

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Hamawand, Zeki . 3. Sentential semantics. Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 39-58 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781781792490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=26433. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.26433. Jan 2016

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