Semantic

Question 1

compositional meaning

Answer 1

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

Question 2

dictionary style

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defines words in terms of others woks but that also reflects the way speakers of a language really use that word.

Question 3

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 then said to be a hyponym of Y, and conversely, Y is said to be a hypernym

Question 4

hypernym (see hyponymy)

Answer 4

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 5

complementary antonyms

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pair of antonyms such the everything must be described be the first word, the second word, or neither; and such that saying of something that it is not member of the set denoted by the first worked implicates that it is in the set devoted by the second word

Question 6

converse

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antonyms in which the first word of the pair suggest a point of view opposite to that of the second word.

Question 7

incompatible

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

Question 8

interactive adjectives

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an adjective whose reference is determined independently from the reference of the noun that is modifies

Question 9

anti-intersection adjectives

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an adjective whose referents are nor in the set referred to by the nun that it modifies

Question 10

idioms

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a multi word lexical expression whose meaning is not compositional

Question 11

compositional semantics

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a subfield of semantics that studies the meaning of phrasal expression and how those meaning arise given the meaning of the lexical expression they contain and how they are syntactically combined

Question 12

semantic

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the study of linguistic meaning

Question 13

lexical expression

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a linguistic expression that has to be listed in the mental lexicon single worked expression and idioms

Question 14

sense

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a mental representation of an expressions meaning

Question 15

reference

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a component of linguistic meaning that relates the sense of the same expression to entities in the outside world, the collection of all the referents of an expression

Question 16

mental image

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a conception of a words sense as a picture in the mind if the language user that represents its meaning

Question 17

usage based

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a characterization of a works sense based on the way that the word is used based speakers of a languages

Question 18

sister term

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words that in term of their reference are at the same level in the hierarchy i,e have exactly the same hypernyms

Question 19

synonymy

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a meaning relationship between words where their reference is exactly the same. for example couch and sofa are synonyms

Question 20

antonymy

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a meaning relationship between weeks where their meaning are in some sense opposite

Question 21

gradable

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words that are antonyms and senate opposite ends of a scale. also known as tradable pairs and as scalar antonyms

Question 22

reverse

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antonyms in which one word in the pari suggests movement that undoes the movement suggested by the others

Question 23

proposition

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the sense expressed by a sentence. characteristically proposition can be true of false i,e. have truth values

Question 24

truth value

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either true of false, the reference of a sentence

Question 25

entailment

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

Question 26

mutual entailment

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the relationship between two propositions where ethyl entail one another

Question 27

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 o the things that are in both the reference set of the adjective and the reference set of the noun

Question 28

subject adjectives

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

Question 29

non-intersection

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an adjective whose reference is a subset the the noun it modifies refers to buy that does bot in and of itself refer to any particular set of things