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semantics

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the study of the ways in which linguistic expressions have meaning

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meaning

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the mental representations in the mind conveyed through linguistic expressionss

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icon

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a sign that is associated with what it represents by means of a similarity relationship

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index

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a sign that is closely associated with its signified, often in a causal relationship

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symbol

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conventionalised object used to refer to something

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sound symbolism

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arbitrary correspondences between certain sounds and certain meanings

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onomatopoeia

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a resemblance relationship between sound and meaning which involves the linguistic mimicking of non-linguistic sounds.

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phonesthesia

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a resemblance relationship between sound and meaning when the sound of a word reminds us of the action or object

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phonesthemes

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a resemblance relationship between sound and meaning involving the random association of sound groupings with meaning

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morphemes

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minimal meaning bearing units

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derivational morphemes

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minimal unit bearing units that change the category of a word and change the word’s meaning

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inflectional morphemes

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minimal meaning bearing units that alter the meaning of a word without changing the lexical category

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open class words

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lexical items that have no clear limitations to the meaning they can express

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closed class words

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lexical items that behave like morphemes

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idiom

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non-compositional phrase whose overall meaning is different to the combined meaning of the individual constituents

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collocations

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words that tend to appear together, with one meaning being specified by the other word

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content words

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main carriers of information in a sentence

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function words

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represent items from a limited choice of expressions of the same kind

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referent

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the entity referred to by an expression

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expression meaning

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the level of meaning involving the meaning of words, phrases and sentences taken out of contextu

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utterance meaning

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the level of meaning involving meaning of words, phrases and sentence in a particular context which relies on truth factors

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communicative meaning

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the level of meaning involving how the meaning of an utterance is interpreted

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referent

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the thing in the world that a linguistic expression denotes or stands for

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referring expressions

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linguistic expressions that denote or stand for real world objects or events

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names

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labels for people, places and objects

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deictic expressions

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linguistic expressions that point to a referent without meaning

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sense

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the mind’s idea with the word removed. an extension beyond reference

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conceptual theory of meaning

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the theory that states that the meaning of words are the concepts that form in the mind

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concepts

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mental, psychological entities that contain the essential, defining properties.

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conceptual items

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lexical items that activate mental concepts

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procedural items

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lexical items that cannot refer and lack concepts. they encode procedures

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determiners

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procedural items that specify the reference of nouns

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proforms

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procedural items that deictic and stand in for other linguistic elements

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conjunctions

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procedural items that signal various relations including cause-effect, sequentiality and opposition

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prepositions

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procedural items that signal various relations including spatial and temporal

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interjections

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lexical items that are halfway between conceptual and procedural. involuntary and symptomatic signals that lack referent but express

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nouns

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lexical items that can refer but need not to do so, they denote living or lifeless, time-stablility or fleeting, property or characteristic

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count nouns

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lexical items belonging to the word category that denotes objects or events that are discrete units with the ability to be counted

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mass nouns

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lexical items belonging to the word category noun which cannot be counted

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adjectives

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lexical items which denote property or characteristic of objects, persons or things

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verbs

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the part of speech that predicates, attributing a property to a referent

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tense

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a morphosyntactic feature marking the differences in the temporal location of events

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aspect

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the way of presenting time within the event itself, how the internal temporal constituency of an event is viewed

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aktionsart

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aspectual properties of events denoted by verbs

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adverbs

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lexical items which indicate how an action denoted by a verb is performed or modify the quality denoted by an adjective

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monosemy

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a meaning relation in which a word has a single meaning

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polysemy

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a meaning relation in which a single phonological form possesses several conceptually related meanings

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homonymy

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a meaning relation in which a single phonological form has various unrelated meanings

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synonymy

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a semantic relation in which lexical items share the same meaning

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antonymy

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a semantic relation involving oppositeness

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meronymy

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a semantic relation between a part and a whole, a relation of part to a whole

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hyponymy and hyperonymy

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a semantic relation involving a kind/type/sort of relation that forms a hierarchal structure

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taxonomy

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hyponymic hierarchies of names.

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associative relations

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meaning relations in which the real units of meaning are not isolated but combinations of words

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collocations

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an associative relation in which meaning arises from the combination of words that tend to appear together

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colligations

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an associative relation involving co-occurrence tendencies among word classes where classes tend to prefer or avoid certain grammatical categories

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semantic preference

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an associative relation involving co-occurrence tendencies based on meaning

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semantic prosody

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an associative relation involving combination of words due to shared connotation

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