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The Structure of a Semantic Theory
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This paper does not attempt to present a semantic theory of a natural language, but rather to characterize the form of such a theory. A semantic theory of a natural language is part of a linguistic description of that language. Our problem, on the other hand, is part of the general theory of language, fully on a par with the problem of characterizing the structure of grammars of natural languages. A characterization of the abstract form of a semantic theory is given by a metatheory which answers such questions as these: What is the domain of a semantic theory? What are the descriptive and explanatory goals of a semantic theory? What mechanisms are employed in pursuit of these goals? What are the empirical and methodological constraints upon a semantic theory?
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- Authors
- Katz, J. J., & Fodor, J. A.
- Venue
- Language
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1963-04
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 170
- ISSN
- 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
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- W1992871189
- Cited by
- 2,214
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- FWCI
- 336.82
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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