File 6 Semantic Term Flashcards

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Semantics

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The study of linguistic meaning

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Compostional Semantics

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A subfield of semantics that studies the meanings of phrasal expressions, and how those meanings arise given the meanings of the lexical expressions they contain and how they are syntactically combined

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Lexical Semantics

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A subfield of semantics that studies meanings of lexical expression

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Sense

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A mental representation of an expression’s meaning

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Reference

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

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Referent

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

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Mental Image Definition

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

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Prototype

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

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Hyponymy

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A meaning relationship between words, where the reference of some word X is included in the reference of some other word Y (X is a subset of Y)

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Hypernymy

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A meaning relationship between words, where the reference of some word Y includes the reference of some other word X (Y is the set that includes X)

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Sister Terms

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Words that, in terms of their reference, are at the same level in the hierarchy, i.e., have exactly the same hypernyms

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Synonymy

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

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Antonymy

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

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complementary antonyms

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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 implies that it is in the set denoted by the second word

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Gradable Antonyms

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Words that are antonyms and denote opposite ends of a scale

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Reverses

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

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Converses

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

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Proposition

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

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Truth Value

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Either true or false. The reference of a sentence

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Truth Conditions

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The set of conditions that would have to hold in the world in order for the proposition expressed by some sentence to be true

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Entailment

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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.

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Mutual Entailment

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The relationship between two propositions where they entail one another

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incompatibility

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

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anti-intersection adjective

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

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Idiom

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A multi-word lexical expression whose meaning is not compositional

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Pure Intersection

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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

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relative intersection

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

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subsective adjectives

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

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non-intersection adjective

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

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compositional meaning

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