Semantics Terms

Question 1

Lexical relations

Answer 1

Semantic relations that exist between words

Question 2

Synonymy

Answer 2

Words that have similar meanings. There is often a broad overlap, but probing reveals different meanings.

Question 3

Antonymy

Answer 3

Words that have opposite meanings.

Question 4

Ungradable antonyms

Answer 4

Antonyms in which the truth of one requires the falsity of the other.

Question 5

Gradable antonyms

Answer 5

Meanings are contrar but they may exist on a continuum. Falseness of one does not necessarily guarantee the truth of the other.

Question 6

Connotation

Answer 6

a theory of meaning in which the meaning of a word is simply a set of associations it invokes.

Question 7

Componential analysis

Answer 7

a theory ased ont he idea that meaning can be decomposed into smaller semantic units called features.

Question 8

Sentential semantics

Answer 8

semantic relations that exist between sentences and phrases

Question 9

paraphrase

Answer 9

two sentences with very similar meanings

Question 10

contradiction

Answer 10

two sentences in which the truth of one requires the falsity of the other

Question 11

Entailment

Answer 11

two sentences in which the truth of the first implies the truth of the second, but the truth of the second does not necessarily imply the truth of the first.

Question 12

Evidentiality markers

Answer 12

indication in a sentence that conveys your confidence in the truth