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Scope (formal semantics)

In formal semantics, the scope of a semantic operator is the semantic object to which it applies. For instance, in the sentence "Paulina doesn't drink beer but she does drink wine," the proposition that Paulina drinks beer occurs within the scope of negation, but the proposition that Paulina drinks wine does not. Scope can be thought of as the semantic…

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Scope (formal semantics)

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples8
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Important terminology

scope sentence semantic one type syntactic split formal reading inherit house position semantics take approach instance need surface form relative

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
type shiftersinstance ofusing formal tools0.80text
monadsinstance ofusing formal tools0.80text
and continuationsinstance ofusing formal tools0.80text
the followinginstance ofthis generalization seems to be contradicted by Haddock descriptions0.80text
Charlowinstance ofRecent work0.80text
that of Heiminstance ofThe semantic scope of an operator corresponds to the position of the item which expresses it at some level of syntactic representation.This view is widely adopted in generative…0.80text
Kratzerinstance ofThe semantic scope of an operator corresponds to the position of the item which expresses it at some level of syntactic representation.This view is widely adopted in generative…0.80text
quantifier raisinginstance ofdiscrepancies between an expression's surface position and its semantic scope are explained by syntactic movement operations0.80text

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