nLab linguistic semantics

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Idea

Linguistic semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

Literature

For an overview which is largely from the point of view of Chomskian structuralism (in particular separating “pragmatics” from semantics) see

Standard references are

  • John Lyons, Semantics

  • John Lyons, Linguistics semantics

Specific issues between cognition and semantics

  • Steven Pinker, The language instinct, 1994

  • George Lakoff, Women, fire and dangerous things, 1987

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