SENTECES MEANING: GRAMMATICALLY, ACCEPTIBILY AND MEANINGFULLNESS
SENTECES MEANING: GRAMMATICALLY, ACCEPTIBILY,AND MEANINGFULLNESS A Paper Presented t o Fulfill the Requirement o f t he Task of semantics CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of Study Meaning is at once the most obvious and most mysterious feature of human language. More than 3,000 years of speculation by philosophers and linguists have failed to crack the central conundrum of meaning. We will begin by surveying some theories of meaning and their weaknesses. We will then look at some features of meaning that any theory should explain. We end with some examples of a linguistic approach to the study of meaning. A referential theory of meaning accounts for our ability to point to the things that words denote, but it has several critical shortcomings. The philosopher Frege pointed out a critical flaw using the phrases morning star and evening star . These phrases have the same referent, but different meanings. Using them in a sentence makes this difference obvious.
