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semantics (Thematic roles (causative (The wind damaged the roof.),…
semantics
Thematic roles
goal
source
location
instrument
theme
experiencer
agent
causative
The
wind
damaged the roof.
processor
the teeth of
crocodile
are sharp
what do words mean?
reference
A word refers to a referent
sense
The part of a word’s meaning needed to complete the association.
Coreferential
polysemy
homonymy
homograph
homophone
the properties of pronouns and other deictic words
Linguistic context
deixis
Situational context
I’ve uploaded the slides from this week’s lecture, so they are now available if you want
implicature
Pragmatics
maxim of conversation
Quality
Relevance
Quality
Manner
Presupposition
speech acts
performative verb
Illocutionary force
breaking the semantic rule
Anomaly
metaphors
idioms
Which one is different?
Metonymy
Hypernyms & hyponyms
study of meaning in language
sentence meaning
entailment
ambiguity
truth
tautology: sentence that always true
contradiction: Sentences that are always false
compositional semantics
meanings of units +
their structural combination
rule 1
rule 2
pragmatics
Study of context effects on meaning
lexical semantics
lexicon
A speaker’s mental dictionary of morphemes and words
Can you lexically paraphrase?
antonyms
Gradable antonyms
fast, brisk, slow
Relational antonyms
borrow dan lend
Complementary antonyms
day night
Autoantonym
Prefixation
Antiautonyms
regardless/ irregardless
semantic features
Conceptual elements
by which we understand the meaning of words and sentences
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