6.1 introduction
semantics is concerned with the meaning of words and how they combine to form sentence meanings.semantics is the technical term used to refer to the study of meaning communicated through language. the basic assumption of semantics is that a person's linguistic are based on the knowledge that they have.it is this knowledge that semantics seeks to investigate
since linguistic description is an attempt to reflect a speaker's knowledge, the semanticist is committed to describing semantic knowledge. this is distinguished as lexical semantics' the meanings of words, and structural semantics, and the meanings of phrases and sentences. semantics contrasts with syntax, which is the study of the structure of languages, focusing on the form, not meaning