File 6

Question 1

Antonym or Antonym (6.2.4)

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Anti-Intersection Adjective (6.4.3)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Complementary Antonyms (6.2.4)

Answer 3

Pair of antonyms such that everything must be described by the first word, the second word, or neither and such that saying of something that it is not a member of the set denoted by the first word implicates that it is in the set denoted by the second word.

Question 4

Compositional Meaning (6.4.1)

Answer 4

The meaning of a phrasal expression that is predictable from the meanings of smaller expressions it contains and how they are syntactically combined.

Question 5

Compositional Semantics (6.1.1)

Answer 5

A sub-field of semantics that studies the meanings of phrasal expressions and how those lexical expressions they contain and how they are syntactically combined.

Question 6

Converses (6.2.4)

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Entailment (6.3.2)

Answer 7

A relationship between propositions where a proposition p is said to entail another proposition q just in case if p is true, q has to be true as well.

Question 8

Gradable (6.2.4)

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Hyponymy (6.2.4)

Answer 9

A meaning relationship between words where the reference of some word X is included in the reference of some other word Y. X is then said to be a hyponym of Y, and conversely, Y is said to be a hypernym.

Question 10

Incompatibility (6.3.2)

Answer 10

The relationship between two propositions where it is impossible for both of them to be true simultaneously.

Question 11

Idiom (6.4.1)

Answer 11

A multi-word lexical expression whose meaning is not compositional.

Question 12

Incompatibility (6.3.2)

Answer 12

The relationship between two propositions where it is impossible for both of them to be true simultaneously.

Question 13

Intersective Adjective (6.4.3)

Answer 13

An adjective whose reference is determined independently from the reference of the noun that is modified.

Question 14

Lexicon (6.1.1)

Answer 14

A mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions.

Question 15

Lexical Semantics (6.1.1)

Answer 15

A subfield of semantics that studies meanings of lexical expressions.

Question 16

Lexical Expression (6.4.1)

Answer 16

A linguistic expression that has to be listed in the mental lexicon.

Question 17

Mental Image Definition (6.2.2)

Answer 17

Conception of a word’s sense as a picture in the mind of the language user that represents its meaning.

Question 18

Non-Intersection Adjective (6.4.3)

Answer 18

An adjective whose reference is a subject of the set that the noun it modifies refers to, but that does not, in of itself refer to any particular set of things.

Question 19

Proposition (6.3.1)

Answer 19

The sense expressed by a sentence. Characteristically, propositions can be true or false, i.e, have truth values.

Question 20

Principle of Constitutionality (6.4.1)

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Prototype (6.2.2)

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Pure intersection (6.4.3)

Answer 22

The relationship between the reference of an adjective and a noun it modifies such that each picks out a particular group of things, and the reference of the resulting phrase is all of the things that are in both the reference set of the adjective and the reference set of the noun.

Question 23

Relative Intersection (6.4.3)

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Referent (6.1.2)

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Reference (6.1.2)

Answer 25

A component of linguistic meaning that relates the sense of some expression to entitles in the outside world. The collection of all the referents of an expression.

Question 26

Reverses (6.2.4)

Answer 26

Antonyms in which one word in the pair suggests movement that “undoes” the movement suggested by the other.

Question 27

Semantics (6.1.1)

Answer 27

The study of linguistic meaning.

Question 28

Sister Terms (6.2.4)

Answer 28

Words that, in terms of their reference, are at the same level in the hierarchy.

Question 29

Subsective Adjective (6.4.3)

Answer 29

An adjective whose reference is included in the set of things that the noun it modifies refers to.

Question 30

Synonymy or Synonym (6.2.4)

Answer 30

A meaning relationship between words where their reference is exactly the same. Example: Couch and Sofa