Semantics

Question 1

What is the word for a semantic relationship that holds between two sentences where the truth of one follows as a logical consequence of the other?

Answer 1

Entailment

Question 2

What are 5 types of sense relations?

Answer 2

Synonymy
Antonymy
Hyponymy
Homonymy
Polysemy

Question 3

What are 4 different types of Antonym?

Answer 3

Simple
Gradable
Reverses
Converses

Question 4

What is Hyponomy?

Answer 4

A sense relation whereby ‘lexical entailment’ occurs. A hyponym ( sheep ) includes its hypernym/superordinate (animal)

Question 5

What is the sense relation called which involves a word having multiple senses that are related to one another? e.g diamond (gemstone vs shape)

Answer 5

Polysemy

Question 6

What are the three types of homonym?

Answer 6

homophones - bear/bare
homographs- wind/ tear
complete homonyms- ground, bark, bank

Question 7

What’s an area where syntax interacts with semantics?

Answer 7

Thematic role assignment

Question 8

What is Thematic Role Assignment?

Answer 8

It is the phenomena of Predicates determining how many types of participants are required in order to describe a complete situation.

Question 9

What is an example of a One-place predicate?

Answer 9

Shout, think

Question 10

What is an example of a Two-place predicate?

Answer 10

hit, told

Question 11

how many places are determined by the predicates ‘put’ and ‘passed’

Answer 11

three. they are three-place predicates. experiencer, theme, goal