Semantics

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Semantics is the study of meaning in language, including the logical aspects of meaning (formal semantics), word meanings and their relations (lexical semantics), and the cognitive structure of meaning (conceptual semantics).

 

 

 

 

Personnel

Sarah E. Blackwell

Professor

Pragmatics, Semantics, Discourse analysis, Cognitive and functional linguistics, Hispanic linguistics

Dustin Alfonso Chacón

Assistant Professor

Predictive processing, syntactic processing, morphological processing, South Asian languages, case and agreement, filler-gap dependencies

Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Associate Professor

Semantics, Pragmatics, Romance languages, Tenetehára

Olga Thomason

Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies

Historical Indo-European linguistics, Prepositional semantics, Slavic linguistics and folklore, Acquisition of Russian by foreign and heritage language learners

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