Semantics is a term coined in the 19th c. to refer to the study of meaning. It focuses in the study of the mind and how we organize and convey our experiences of the world through language and it interacts with phonology...
The grammar knowledge of a language, also known as linguistic competence, is an unconscious process when learning one’s own language, while rather conscious in a second language acquisition. Therefore, from the very first stages...
A distinction must be drawn between nouns: between those which refer to things which may be counted and related to number, and those whose referents may not be counted and relate to amount. The former are termed...
In addition to identifying a participant in terms of its possession and quantity, we may also wish to distinguish a participant from other members of its class or to mention descriptive information about it...
The VERB may be regarded as determining what other elements may or must accompany it in the sentence. A verb is not only a representative of a situation type, but it creates a situation which contains people who do things...