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This document provides an introduction to semantics and pragmatics. It discusses the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Semantics deals with lexical meaning and compositional meaning, but this underspecifies utterance interpretation. Pragmatics goes beyond what is said to determine implicatures and explicatures based on contextual assumptions and inferences. Disambiguation and inference are examples of how pragmatics interfaces with semantics to arrive at a full interpretation of an utt

Author

Selene Selva

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EN