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SIMPLIFIED

SEMANTICS
BY:
DAMODAR
THAKUR
SOME
GENERAL
OBSERVATIONS
* WHAT IS SEMANTICS?
* WHAT IS
PRAGMATICS?
* THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN SEMANTICS
AND PRAGMATICS
SOME BASIC
CONCEPTS IN
SEMANTICS
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
A SENTENCE & AN
UTTERANCE
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
A SENTENCE & AND A
PROPOSITION
ANALYTIC SENTENCE
SYNTHETIC SENTENCE
CONTRADICTION
ENTAILMENT
PARAPHRASE
SENSE & REFERENCE
DENOTATION & CONNOTATION
THE SEMANTICS
OF WORDS (1)
THE TWO TESTS OF
SYNONYMY
PATTERNS OF
SYNONYMY IN
ENGLISH
THE SEMANTICS
OF WORDS (2)
DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN POLYSEMY
& HOMONYMY
THE SEMANTICS
OF WORDS (3)
THE SEMANTICS OF
PREFIXES & SUFFIXES
IN ENGLISH
POLYSEMIC PREFIXES
& SUFFIXES
HOMONYMOUS
PREFIXES & SUFFIXES
AMBIGUITY:
PHONOLOGICAL
AMBIGUITY
LEXICAL AMBIGUITY
GRAMMATICAL
AMBIGUITY
THE SEMANTICS OF SENTENCE
ELEMENTS
{PARTICIPANT ROLES /
SEMANTIC ROLES}
THE SEMANTICS OF THE
SENTENCE (1)
PREDICATORS, PREDICATES &
ARGUMENTS
THE DEGREE OF A PREDICATE
THE SEMANTICS OF THE
SENTENCE (3)
SPEECH ACTS
CHANGES IN THE
MEANINGS OF
WORDS
THEORIES OF
MEANING: A BRIEF
SURVEY

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