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Chapter 4. Semantics: the meaning of language Defining Semantics The study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences is called semantics lexical semantics phrasal or sentential semantics The study of how context affects meaning is called pragmatics Truth conditional semantics semantics of logic?(Davidson 1967) Truth-conditional semantics, is a systematic way to account for the ability to determine: whether a sentence is true or false; when one sentence implies the truth or falsehood of another; whether a sentence has multiple meanings. Truth-conditio