Keyword

semantics

Description: Semantics is the study of meaning, especially how words, sentences, and other linguistic expressions convey and organize meaning.

Primary topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (33%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q39645

OpenAlex ID: keywords/semantics

Word and Object

1960 · W. V. Quine · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 5,851

The Java Language Specification

1996 · James Gosling, Bill Joy, et al. · 3,952

The meaning of ‘meaning’

2010 · Hilary Putnam · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 3,767

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music

1984 · Peter Child, Fred Lerdahl, et al. · Computer Music Journal · 3,751

The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases

1982 · Heim, I. · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 3,456

Foundations of Language

2002 · Ray Jackendoff · 3,276

Semantics in generative grammar. By Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer. Maiden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. ix, 324. - Introduction to natural language semantics. By Henriëtte de Swart. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1998. Pp. xiv, 257.

1999 · Bart Geurts · Language · 2,863

Psychosemantics

1987 · Jerry A. Fodor · The MIT Press eBooks · 2,797

An introduction to functional grammar

1986 · G.D. Morley · Lingua · 2,785

A Natural history of negation

1990 · Eva Hajic̈ova · Lingua · 2,431

The varieties of reference

1982 · Gareth Evans, John McDowell · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2,360

Situations and Attitudes

1981 · Jon Barwise, John Perry · The Journal of Philosophy · 2,352

Explorations in the functions of language

1973 · M.A.K. Halliday · 2,266

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

1986 · Gul Agha · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2,223

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Semantics and Cognition.

1985 · Steven E. Boer, Ray Jackendoff · The Philosophical Review · 2,170

Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics

1968 · John Lyons · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2,140

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

2013 · M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen · Routledge eBooks · 2,091

Frames and the semantics of understanding

1985 · Charles J. Fillmore · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2,078

From Discourse to Logic

1993 · Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle · Studies in linguistics and philosophy · 1,988

Semantics of context-free languages

1968 · Donald E. Knuth · Theory of Computing Systems · 1,952

English Word-Formation

1983 · Laurie Bauer · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,898

Word Meaning and Montague Grammar.

1982 · Terence Parsons, David R. Dowty · The Philosophical Review · 1,805

The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings

1990 · Lila Gleitman · Language Acquisition · 1,781

Syntax and Semantics:" Vol. 3, "Speech Acts

1977 · Herman Parret · Tijdschrift voor Philosophie · 1,684

Learning How to Mean

1975 · M.A.K. Halliday · Elsevier eBooks · 1,654

Works count: 50,880

Citation count: 429,900