From Sentence Meanings to Full Semantics

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  • Wilfrid Hodges
چکیده

1 (1) Two approaches to meanings (2) The lifting lemma (3) When is the lifting an extension? (4) Applications to artificial languages (5) Applications to natural languages (6) References 2 1. Two approaches to meanings A. Aristotle (4th c. BC) Separate words have meanings. The meaning of a sentence is the result of combining the meanings of the words in it. The meaning of a sentence is the embodiment of all the separate meanings of the words which make up the sentence; they are bound to each other and determine each other. 3 B. Abdul Q¯ ahir al-Jurj¯ an¯ ı (Persia, 11th c) Meanings are expressed primarily in sentences. Individual words have meanings, but the meaning of a word is not detachable from the roles it plays in sentences. Dal¯ ail p. 316 When you say 'Zaid beat up Amran last Friday', you present not the meanings of the separate words but the connections between these meanings in the sentence.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011