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Wikipage of Group 8

Overview

Members

• Ingo Müller
• Moonhwa Lindemann
• Boris Lehn
• Florian Bast
• Hilâl Ünal

Short description of the topic

In semantics, there are different sorts of entities. You distinguish between entities which represent a single person or object and entities that represent a group of persons/objects. Additionally, you differentiate between concrete and abstract entities. A concrete entity refers to a specific object, e.g. a particular being (which usually has a name); on the other hand, an abstract entity refers to a non-specific object.

Example:

The sentence The dodo is extinct refers to the entire species (of the dodo) and "the dodo" is therefore an abstract entity, i.e. a kind.
On the contrary, the sentence My dodo is extinct (or rather, dead), obviously neglecting the fact that dodos in general do not exist anymore, refers to a specific dodo, which thus is a concrete entity, i.e. an object.

The same goes for events. An event can be either concrete or abstract.

References and links

References

The English Noun Phrase: an empirical study
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET - Algoritmer för datorlingvistisk semantik I
Zhaohui Luo - Word Meanings in Type-Theoretical Semantics

Our e-learning objects

Our wiki pages

• in the Glossary:
  • Glossary:Heteronym: the entry for Heteronymy
  • Glossary:Homonym: the entry for Homonymy
  • Glossary:Sorts/Types: the entry for Sorts/Types

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