LING 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Logical Consequence, Pragmatics, Principle Of Compositionality
3 Jun 2019
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Lecture notes - intro to language & linguistics. Deals with meaning and meaning relationships at sentence levels. Sentence-level meaning is essentially a function of its parts. Property of recursion: sentences are built on themselves. Compositionality: ordering and arrangement of words gives rise to speci c expression meanings. Syntax may give a template for word-forms to plug into, but we need word-level or semantic composition rules. Semantic composition rules depend on lexical meaning relationships. Principle of compositionality: the meaning of a sentence is determined by the . Lexical (word-level) meaning of components: grammatical forms of components. Idioms: the sole exception to compositionality, they are stored in the lexicon separately. Ex: bite the dust, go over the hill, give them hell, lose sight of, etc . This de nes expression meaning, which is the scope of semantics. Sentence relations and truth: attempt to de ne sentences through relationships between sentences. Entailment: a entails b: if a, b is true automatically.
