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🔠Intro to Semantics and Pragmatics
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A

Accuracy measures
Adverbial Modifiers
Agentive Case
Alex Lascarides
Ambiguity resolution
Angular gyrus
Annotated corpus
Aphasia
Assertion vs. Presumption
Atomic Proposition
Automatic Activation

B

Backward-looking center
Barbara Grosz
Basic color terms
Basic-level categories
Believes that
Berlin and Kay
Bertrand Russell
Binary Values
Blood oxygenation level-dependent
Bottom-up composition
British National Corpus
Broca's aphasia
Broca's Area

C

C-command
Candace Sidner
Case marking
Cataphoric expressions
Causal Chain
Charles Fillmore
Coarse semantic coding
Cognitive Economy
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive meaning
Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive Semantics
Cohesion
Color adjectives
Comparative Method
Complex Sentences
Computational Complexity
Conceptual Representation
Connotative Meaning
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
Continue transition
Conventions
Conversational Context
Conversational Inference
Conversational Principles
Corpus of Contemporary American English
Cosine similarity
Cross-categorial quantification
Cumulative representation

D

Dan Sperber
Dative Case
David Dowty
Deductive Reasoning
Deep Cases
Deirdre Wilson
Denotative Meaning
Deontic logic