Chapter 6_ Semantics

Question 1

Hyponymy

Answer 1

A meaning relationship between words.

Question 2

Synonymy

Answer 2

A meaning relationship between words, where their reference is exactly the same.

Question 3

Sister words

Answer 3

Words that, in terms of their reference.

Question 4

Antonymy

Answer 4

A meaning relationship between words where their meanings are in some sense opposite.

Question 5

Gradable Antonyms

Answer 5

Words that are antonyms and denote opposite ends of a scale.

Question 6

Truth Value

Answer 6

Either true or false.

Question 7

Converses

Answer 7

Antonym in which the first word of the pair suggests a point of view opposite to that of the second word.

Question 8

Entailment

Answer 8

A relationship between proposition where a proposition is said to entail another proposition.

Question 9

Truth conditions

Answer 9

The set of conditions that would have to hold in the world in order for the proposition.

Question 10

incompatible

Answer 10

The relationship between two proposition where it is impossible for both of them.

Question 11

Principle of compositionality

Answer 11

The notion that the meaning of a Parasal expression is predictable from the meaning of the expressions it contains and how they were syntactically combined.

Question 12

Compositional

Answer 12

The Meaning of a phrasal expression that is predictable from meanings of smaller expressions.

Question 13

Pure intersection

Answer 13

The relationships between the reference of an adjective and a noun it modifies such that each picks out a particular group of things.

Question 14

Non intersection

Answer 14

An adjective whose reference is a subset of the set that the noun it modifies refers to.

Question 15

Anti intersection

Answer 15

An adjective whose referent are not in the set referred to by the noun that it modifies.

Question 16

Relative intersection

Answer 16

Type of relationship between adjective and noun reference where the reference of the adjective is determined relative.

Question 17

Intersective adjectives``

Answer 17

An adjective whose reference is determined independently from the reference.

Question 18

Subsective adj

Answer 18

Adjective whose reference is included in the set of things that the noun they modify refers to.

Question 19

proposition

Answer 19

The sense expressed by a sentence.

Question 20

complementary

Answer 20

Pair of antonyms such that everything must be described by the first word.

Question 21

Hypernym

Answer 21

A meaning relationship between words.

Question 22

Mental image

Answer 22

A conception of a words sense as a picture in the mind.

Question 23

sense

Answer 23

A mental representation of an expression meaning.

Question 24

Reference

Answer 24

A component of linguistic meaning that relates the since of some expressions

Question 25

Referents

Answer 25

An actual entity or an individual in the world to which some expression refers.

Question 26

Semantics

Answer 26

The study of linguistic meaning.

Question 27

Lexical semantics

Answer 27

A Suffield of semantics that studies meaning of lexical expressions

Question 28

Compositional semantics

Answer 28

The meaning of a phrasal expression .

Question 29

diacritic

Answer 29

An extra mark on a written symbol.

Question 30

prototype

Answer 30

For any given set, member that exhibits the typical qualities of the members of that set