gap filling semantics

By means of ________ a speaker indicates which things in the world (including persons) are being talked about.

A proposition is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a ________ sentence which describes some state of affairs.

A generic sentence is a sentence in whicch some statement is made about a whole ______class of individuals.

_________ is the relationship between two predicates that have the same sense.

A word or sentence is ______ when it has more than one sense.

A case of ________ is one where a word has several very closely related senses.

The _________ is the thing (hardly ever a person) by means of which the action is carried out, the key in our example.

The role of ________ is played by any expression referring to the place where the action described by a sentence takes places.

The _____ _______ of an illocutionary act are conditions that must be fulfilled in the situation in which the act is carried out if the act is to be said to be carried out properly, or felicitously.

An inference is any conclusion that one is _______ entitled to draw from a sentence or utterance.