Semantics

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semantic theories

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the study of sense relations between expressions in a language, focusing on entailment and truth conditions to describe meaning in terms of models and interpretations

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compositional semantics

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concerned with phrasal meanings; the ways in which individual words come together and connect to make a broader, comprehensible sentence

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lexical semantics

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as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings

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semantic features

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basic features that can be combined to define semantic concepts

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semantic roles

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the actual role a participant plays in some real or imagined situation, apart from the linguistic encoding of those situations

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lexical relations

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the ways in which words are related to each other in a language

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Semantics

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is the study of meaning in language

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morphology

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the study of the forms of words.

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syntax

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the part of linguistics that studies the structure and formation of sentences

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Plato’s
dialogue Cratylus

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the only Platonic dialogue devoted exclusively to language and its relation to reality

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onomatopoeic

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using or creating words that imitate or name a sound

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Stereotype

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A preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, race, or community which may lead to treating them in a particular way

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Referent

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the person, thing, or idea that a word or expression denotes, stands for, or refers to

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Extension

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the set of things it extends to, or applies to, if it is the sort of concept or expression that a single object by itself can satisfy

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Prototype

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The most typical example of a category that functions as a cognitive reference point

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Coreference

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occurs when two or more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same referent

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Anaphora

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is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context

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Deixis

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is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time

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Grammar

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rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other elements, as well as their combination and interpretation

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syntacticians

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a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax

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thematic role

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of, relating to, or constituting a theme

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Denotative meaning

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the key that opens the most basic, literal, and direct interpretation of a word

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Connotative meaning

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a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly

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Social meaning

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It is the meaning that a word possesses by virtue of its use in particular social situations and
circumstances

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Thematic meaning

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It lies in the manner in which a message is organized for emphasis.

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The Conceptual Theory of Meaning

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In the theory of meaning, just explained, words and things are directly related But in the conceptual theory of meaning words and things are related through the mediation of concepts of the mind.

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Contradictory Sentences

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are just the opposite of analytic sentences; characterize statements that cannot be true based on the defined meanings of the words.

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analytic sentences

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a sentence, which is true because of the meaning relationship between the subject and predicate.

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Gradable

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They can be used in comparative constructions. The negative of one member does not necessarily imply
the other; e.g. not old doesn‟t mean young.

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Hyponymy

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Hyponymy: When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationship