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The philosophical and scientific study of meaning. Sometimes considered to be the same thing as semiotics, semology, or semasiology, which have overlapping meanings. This is a relatively new field of study, and several pioneers who largely worked independently of one another each felt the need to coin a new name for the new discipline, resulting in a variety of terms for the same subject. The word semantics is widely preferred as the name for the doctrine of meaning, particularly linguistic meaning. Semiotics denotes the study of sign-using behaviour in general. -- Based on britannica.com entry

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The Formal Approach to Meaning

Short survey of semantics of natural language by Barbara Abbott, at University of Michigan. Focusses upon Montague semantics, and tries to give a feel for the main open problems in the field.
http://www.msu.edu/user/abbottb/formal.htm

The Four Basic Ontologies of Semantic Interpretation

Article by Roland Hausser comparing approaches to semantics between linguistics, philosophy and computer science, and classifying them into four kinds depending upon whether or not they are realist, and whether or not they make a sense/reference distincti
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/papers/ontologies/dublin.html

Review of `From Discourse to Logic'

Review by Varol Akman of the book by Hans Kamp and Uwe Reyle.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~akman/book-revs/fdtl/fdtl.html

Review of `Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction'

Published review by Jarol Akman of John Lyon's book.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~akman/book-revs/ls/ls.html

Approaching Natural Language Via Mediaeval Logic

Article by Gyula Klima.
http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/NLN.htm

A Semantics for Durative Adverbials

Article by Cristopher Piñón.
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/SuB99/abstracts/Pinon.html

SEMANTIK mailing list

Majordomo based mailing list for semantics organised by the Gesellschaft fuer Semantik.
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/gfs/english/semantik.html

Gesellschaft fuer Semantik

English homepage of the young academic organisation concered with the semantics of natural languages. Organises the Sinn und Bedeutung workshop and the SEMANTIK mailing list.
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/gfs/english/navi.html

Semantics Archive

Scholarly research paper exchange for language semanticists. Browseable by author or date; submission and update forms, users guide.
http://www.semanticsarchive.net/

Concepts in the Lexicon

Report by John F. Sowa, discussing the role of the lexicon in conceptual knowledge.
http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/ontology/lexicon.htm

Dallas-Fort Worth Center for General Semantics

Provides educational materials and resources for promoting mental health and adjustment through self-aware use of language and symbols.
http://dfwcgs.net
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Logical Form in Linguistics

Entry in the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, by Robert May.
http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/%7Ermay/LogicalForm.html

Comparison of inflection and derivation

Compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between inflection and derivation.
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/ComparisonOfInflectionAndDeriv.htm

movealpha

download linguistic papers about semantics, textlinguistics, hypertext, paradoxes, metaphors, urls, search engines
http://www.movealpha.net

Research Group Communicative Understanding

Explains pragmatic implication based on Grice's theory of implicit communication and presupposition.
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~fkv/projekte/p2e.html

Pichler24: buzzwords and other things

This page is mainly dedicated to the so called buzzwords. It allows the reader to investigate, ask questions, and discuss their meaning.
http://buzzword.pichler24.de/

Layers in the Determiner Phrase

PhD thesis by Roberto Zamparelli, with extensive supporting material and a facility to send online feedback. Investigates semantic parallels to syntactic arguments for Szabolcsi and Abney's `DP-hypothesis'.
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~roberto/layers/intro.html

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