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🔠Intro to Semantics and Pragmatics
Key Terms

222 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Semantics and Pragmatics exam

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A

Adverbial Modifiers
Agentive Case
Ambiguity resolution
Annotated corpus
Atomic Proposition
Automatic Activation

B

Backward-looking center
Basic color terms
Basic-level categories
Berlin and Kay
Bertrand Russell
Bottom-up composition

C

C-command
Case marking
Cataphoric expressions
Charles Fillmore
Coarse semantic coding
Cognitive Economy
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive Semantics
Cohesion
Color adjectives
Conceptual Representation
Constative utterances
Context dependence
Context of Situation
Context-dependent phenomena
Contextual Cues
Contextual Effect
Contextual factors
Contextual inference
Contextual Integration
Contextual Meaning
Contextual Modality
Contextual presupposition
Contextual Reference
Contextual Variability
Contingent Proposition
Conversational Context
Conversational Inference
Conversational Principles
Cosine similarity
Cross-categorial quantification
Cumulative representation

D

Dan Sperber
Deep Cases
Denotative Meaning
Deontic logic
Dialogue systems
Discourse coherence
Discourse continuity
Discourse Entities
Discourse markers
Discourse Referent
Discourse Relations
Discourse segment
Discourse state
Discourse structure
Disfluency
Distinctive Features
Donald Davidson
Dyadic predicate
Dynamic Interpretation

E

Ellipsis
Entailment
Epistemic Logic
Event Calculus
Event predicates
Event Structure
Event types
Event variables
Evidentiality
Exemplar Theory
Existential implicature
Experimental Semantics