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Introductions to Semantics
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Philosophical Approaches
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Speech Acts
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Entities
Brent Berlin. 1992. Ethnobiological classification : principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Pronouns
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Determiners
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Actions
Bach, Emmon. 1986. The algebra of events. Linguistics and Philosophy 9.5-16.
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Thematic Roles
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Truth and Meaning
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Space
Choi, Soonja & Bowerman, Melissa. 1991. Learning to express motion events in English
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Tense, Aspect, and Modality
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