SEMANTICS

1. Semantic (Lexical) Fields

1.1. Collocations

1.2. Idioms

2. Semantics and the Dictionary

2.1. • Semantic universals

2.2. • Dictionary and its lexical entries

2.3. • How meanings are arranged in a lexical entry

3. Sentence relations

3.1. • Situation types

3.2. • Modality

3.3. • Evidentiality

4. Semantics in Language processing and Language Acquisition

4.1. • How linguists study the way that people process presuppositions and implicatures

4.2. • The time-course of presupposition and implicature processing

4.3. • How linguists study the semantics of child language

4.4. • Development of presuppositions and implicatures in children

5. Pronouns

5.1. • The semantics of deictic pronouns

5.2. • Anaphora

5.3. • Cataphora

5.4. • The semantics of pronominal gender features

6. Semantics and Syntax; Semantics and Pragmatics (Utterance Meaning)

6.1. • Speech acts

6.2. • Perlocutions and illocutions

6.3. • Felicity conditions

6.4. • Propositions and illocutions

6.5. • Conversational implicatures

7. Introduction to Semantics as a Scientific Discipline

7.1. • Basic ideas in Semantics

7.1.1. Sentences

7.1.2. Utterances

7.1.3. Propositions

7.2. • Meaning, sign and symbol

8. Types of Meaning

8.1. • What is meaning?

8.2. • Some Types of Meaning

8.2.1. Literal

8.2.2. Figurative

8.2.2.1. Metaphor

8.2.2.2. Metonymy

8.2.2.3. Synecdoche

8.2.3. Denotative

8.2.4. Connotative

8.3. • Leech’ Classification of Meaning

8.4. • Sentence/Word Meaning & Speaker Meaning

9. Reference and Sense

9.1. • Naming

9.2. • Concepts,

9.3. • Meaning sense and reference

9.4. • Kinds of referents

9.5. • Equative sentence,

9.6. • Linguistic relativity

10. Lexical Semantics

10.1. Fields and Collocation

10.1.1. • Word forms

10.1.1.1. Lexeme

10.1.1.2. Lexicon

10.1.2. • Semantic field theory vs truth conditional semantics

10.1.3. • Paraphrases

10.1.4. • Entailments

10.1.5. • Contradictions

10.1.6. • Lexical relations

10.1.6.1. • Homonymy

10.1.6.2. • Polysemy

10.1.6.3. • Synonymy

10.1.6.4. • Hyponymy

11. Lexical Semantics

11.1. Sense and Relation

11.1.1. • What is an antonym?

11.1.2. • Kinds of antonymy

11.1.3. • Antonymous relations

11.1.3.1. Binary/non binary antonyms

11.1.4. • Symmetry and reciprocity