The infinitive phrase she uttered was elliptical for a sentence meaning "Mary went to the gym" but does not itself mean that.
I noticed that my name was a sentence, meaning one with will, who is strong-willed.
The court passed a suspended sentence, meaning that he was entitled to be released immediately.
Or I could commute his sentence, meaning his conviction would stand, but his prison sentence would not," writes Bush.
The other component of sentence meaning is word meaning, the individual meanings of the words in a sentence, as lexical items.
But Wynn also suspended the sentence, meaning that Hollosy remains free unless he violates his one-year probation.
The charges carry a life sentence, meaning a minimum of 18 years in prison and a maximum €225,000 (£161,000) fine.
Furthermore, he regarded sentence meaning as composed of separate word meanings held together in a relational structure; the word meaning formed, for him, the simplest unit of sense.
For example, an American child will say "want ball" rather than "ball want" for a sentence meaning "I want the ball".
Dummett was known chiefly for his defense of antirealism (see realism) and his attempt to explicate sentence meaning in terms of "assertibility conditions" rather than truth conditions.
