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🔠Intro to Semantics and Pragmatics
Key Terms

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

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± for sitting
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± with arms
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A

Ability
Absolute indexicals
Accessibility
Accessible Worlds
Accuracy measures
Actual world
Addressee
Adverbial Modifiers
Agent
Agentive Case
Alex Lascarides
All
Ambiguity
Ambiguity resolution
Anaphora
Anaphora Resolution
Anaphoric Expressions
Anaphoric reference
Anaphoric References
Angular gyrus
Annotated corpus
Antecedent
Antonymy
Aphasia
Apologies
Apologizing
Argument
Argument realization
Argument Structure
Arguments
Asserting
Assertion vs. Presumption
Assertives
Assignment function
Atomic Proposition
Austin's Speech Act Theory
Automatic Activation

B

Backward-looking center
Barbara Grosz
Basic color terms
Basic-level categories
Belief
Believe
Believes that
Berlin and Kay
Bertrand Russell
Binary Values
Binding
Binding domains
Binding theory
Bird as a Prototype for Avian Categories
Blood oxygenation level-dependent
Boiling
Bottom-up composition
British National Corpus
Broca's aphasia
Broca's Area

C

C-command
Calculability
Can
Cancellability
Candace Sidner
Case Grammar