Semantics

Catalog description

In this course we explore meaning in language in-depth and from many different angles. First we discuss the nature of meaning and the various levels we must describe to move towards a more complete understanding. Along the way we examine meaning in words and how these meanings are stored, related and represented both in our knowledge and in the mind/brain. From there we will spend a significant amount of time uncovering the meanings of sentences by looking at sentential meaning as a function of the sum of its parts.