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Concepts in the Lexicon: Introduction John F. Sowa The lexicon is the bridge between a language and the knowledge expressed in that language. Every language has a different vocabulary, but every language provides the grammatical mechanisms for combining its stock of words to express an open-ended range of concepts. Different languages, however, differ in the grammar, the words, and the concepts ...

The formal approach to meaning: Formal semantics and its recent developments Barbara Abbott Michigan State University June 1998 abbottb@pilot.msu.edu Like Spanish moss on a live oak tree, the scientific study of meaning in language has expanded in the last 100 years, and continues to expand steadily. In this essay I want to chart some central themes in that expansion, including their histories ...

Gyula Klima: Approaching Natural Language Via Mediaeval Logic (appeared in: J. Bernard-J. Kelemen: Zeichen, Denken, Praxis, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien: Vienna, 1990, pp. 249-267.) I. ANOMALIES OF A PARADIGM Are quantification and cross reference in English well represented by the quantifiers for every and some , the usual propositional connectives and the equals sign It s my ...

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A semantics for durative adverbials Cristopher Pi n, Univeritat Dusseldorf Durative adverbials are familiar from the aspectual literature as a standard diagnostic for distinguishing states and activities from accomplishments and achievements. Durative adverbials in English are typically realized as prepositional phrases headed by for (for twenty minutes), but they may take other forms as well ...