Semantics

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Semantics

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The study of meaning in language

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Lexical Semantics

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The study of word meanings and their interrelations

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Compositional Semantics

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The study of how meanings combine in phrases and sentences

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Pragmatics

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The study of meaning in context

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Denotation

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The primary, literal meaning of a word

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Connotation

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The additional, implied, or associated meanings of a word

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Sense and Reference

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The distinction between the concept a word represents (Sense) and the real-world object it refers to (Reference)

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Semantic Field

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A group of words related by meaning like colors or emotions

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Polysemy

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A word with multiple realated meanings like bank, riverbank, financial institution

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Homonymy

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Words with the same spelling or pronounciation by unrelated meanings like bat: flying mammal, sports equipment.

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Synonymy

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Words with similar or identical meanings like big and large or small and tiny

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Antonymy

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Words with opposite meanings hot and cold or big and small

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Hyponymy

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The hierarchial relationship where one term is more specific than another

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Hypernymy

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The relationship where one term is more general than another

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Meronymy

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The relationship of part to whole

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Holonymy

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The relationship of whole to part

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Ambiguity

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A word or sentence with multiple interpretations

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Structural Ambiguity

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Ambiguity caused by sentence structure

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Lexical Ambiguity

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Ambiguity caused by a word having multiple meanings

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Prototype Theory

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The idea that categories are based on a prototypical example rather than a fixed set of criteria

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Semantic Roles

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The roles entities play in a sentence

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Agent

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The doer of an action in a sentence

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Patient

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The entity affected by an action

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Experiencer

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The entity experiencing a state or emotion

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Presupposition

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An implicit assumption required for a sentence to make sense

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Entailment

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A logical relationship where one sentence necessarilty follows from another

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Proposition

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The basic unit of meaning that can be true or false

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Truth conditions

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The conditions under which a proposition is true

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Semantic Change

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The evolution of word meanings overtime

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Semantic features

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The basic components of meaning that distinguish one word from another