Leksička semantika i pragmatika 1. predavanje

Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

Semantics and Pragmatics High-level Linguistics (the good stuff!) Semantics: the study of meaning that can be determined from a sentence, phrase or word. Pragmatics: the study of meaning, as it depends on context (speaker, situation) LING NLP3

Language to Logic John went to the book store.  John  store1, go(John, store1) John bought a book. buy(John,book1) John gave the book to Mary. give(John,book1,Mary) Mary put the book on the table. put(Mary,book1,table1) LING NLP4

Semantics Same event - different sentences John broke the window with a hammer. John broke the window with the crack. The hammer broke the window. The window broke. LING NLP5

Same event - different syntactic frames John broke the window with a hammer. SUBJ VERB OBJ MODIFIER John broke the window with the crack. SUBJ VERB OBJ MODIFIER The hammer broke the window. SUBJ VERB OBJ The window broke. SUBJ VERB LING NLP6