Trends in the Semantics of the Last Decades

In a rather short period of time - a century of existence - semantics has succeeded to develop an ample mosaic of research methods and theories. The article focuses on the status of linguistic semantics in the contemporary episteme in an attempt to identify the most important trends of research and the general characteristics of the discipline. The paper argues that so far the developments in semantics can be divided into the following main directions: a. European (French and German) and b. Anglo-Saxon, each of them with its own methodological profile and with different origins of its empirical data.