Self-Assessment Question and Possible Answer

1. What is 'meta-language'?

Ans.: There are two components found in the meta-language. They are as follows:

1. Semantic part
2. Non-semantic part

The non-semantic part must furnish an expressive potential that is as rich as that of object language. Thus, there is a correspondence relation found between the non-semantic part of the meta-language and the object language, while no such correspondence is sought in the semantic part of the meta-language.

Meta-language meets the following requirements.

1. It allows all expressions of the object language to be explicable in it.
2. It contains semantic concepts in relation to the object language that can't be formulated in the object language.