semantics is the study of meaning communicated through language
Löbner
(2002)
Semantics is the part of linguistics that is concerned with
meaning
Frawley
(1992)
Linguistic semantics is the study of literal,
decontextualized, grammatical meaning
Kreidler
(1998
Linguistic semantics is the study of how languages
organize and express meanings
Lyons
(1977)
Semantics is the study of meaning
history of semantic
semantic studies can be traced
back to the first studies of language
by man.
Since the very first moments in which
man started to investigate the
phenomenon of
Aristotle’s first ruminations on
language (IV c. BC) or Pāņini’s
grammar (IV c BC?),
The attempt to find the
correspondence between parts of
the linguistic code and parts of
meaning can be considered the goal
of any linguistic theory in general.
The most succesful theory of the XXth century
Chomsky an Generativism
Chomsky argued that the human Brain, contains a limited set of constraints for
organizing language. This implie in turn that all languages have a common structural basis:
the set of rules known as universal grammar.
Formal Semantics
Is concerned with a very limited set of statements that can be truth about the truth can
be determinated
Formal semantics is the natural choice for people working in rule based on natural
language proccesing
syntax
For the syntax we assume that sentences have a hierachical
constituent structure that groups words and subconstituents
into constituents.
Cognitive Semantics
It tries to root meaning in human experience
of the world which it finds in human
cognition.