THE ROLE OF SEMANTICS IN GENERATIVE AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Keywords:
emphasize, semantic, cognitive, rule, universal, syntactic, analyze, phrases, combine, determine, approach, meaningful, provide, experience, metaphor, metonymy, conceptual blending, prototype formation.Abstract
Semantics is the branch of linguistics that focuses on the study of meaning in language. It plays a crucial role in both generative and cognitive linguistics, two theoretical frameworks that aim to understand how language is structured, processed, and acquired by humans. This paper aims to delve into the importance of semantics within these two linguistic frameworks.
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