Grammar and Semantics: Where Structure Meets Meaning.
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The grammar of a language is the system of rules and semantic is the study of meaning. Rules specified by grammar help create various sentences, while semantics helps in interpreting their meanings. These fields' interrelation raises important questions about how structure affects meaning and vice versa, and emptiness' meaning. The paper which discusses major theories and also debates deals with the relationship of grammar and semantics. An important area of research is compositional semantics which holds that a sentence‘s meaning comes from both the meaning of the parts and their arrangement in the sentence. Exceptions such as idioms and contextual use ambiguity undermine compositionality because they refer to complex interactions between linguistic form and meaning. Syntactic ambiguities occur when a single sentence can have different interpretations based on how we join the words together. This study sees how meanings are encoded in different ways in terms ofgrammars of different languages. The article also mentions how cognitivefactors and pragmatics show that meaning is not only a function of syntax.This paper shows how the relationship of grammar and semantics aremaking an integrated approach mandated. Understanding how structureinteracts with meaning further enhances our understanding of naturallanguage processing, language acquisition, and even artificial intelligence.This adds to a better insight of discourse.
Author: Sadam Hayel Hasan Megdadi*
Institution: Yarmouk University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930813259
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