vocab 6

Question 1

semantics

Answer 1

the study of linguistic meaning

Question 2

lexical

Answer 2

mental repository of linguistic information

Question 3

compositional

Answer 3

predictable meaning from smaller expressions

Question 4

sense

Answer 4

mental representation of an expressions meaning

Question 5

reference

Answer 5

relates the senses of some expression

Question 6

mental image

Answer 6

word’s sense as a picture in the mind of the language that presents it’s meaning

Question 7

hyponymy

Answer 7

reference used in one word from another word

Question 8

hypernym

Answer 8

reference used in one word from another word

Question 9

sister terms

Answer 9

words in the same level of hierarchy

Question 10

synonymy

Answer 10

relationship between words with exact same meaning

Question 11

antonymy

Answer 11

relationship between words meanings that are opposite

Question 12

complementary

Answer 12

non-subject argument of someexpressions

Question 13

gradable

Answer 13

denote opposite end of the scale

Question 14

converses

Answer 14

antonyms the first word pair share opposite meanings

Question 15

proposition

Answer 15

sense expressed by a sentence

Question 16

truth value

Answer 16

truth of a certain meaning

Question 17

truth conditions

Answer 17

set of conditions that would have to hold in the word order

Question 18

entailment

Answer 18

prepositions entail other prepositions

Question 19

mutual entailment

Answer 19

two prepositions entail one another

Question 20

incompatible

Answer 20

the impossibility of two prepositions to be combined together

Question 21

principle of compositionality

Answer 21

predictible meNINGS OF EXPRESSIONS

Question 22

idioms

Answer 22

a multi-word lexical expression whose meaning is not compositional

Question 23

pure intersection

Answer 23

reference of a preposition and a words noun modifies

Question 24

intersective adjectives

Answer 24

reference i termed independently

Question 25

relative intersection

Answer 25

relationship between adjective and noun

Question 26

subsective adjectives

Answer 26

adjectives modified to get modified

Question 27

compositional

Answer 27

predictable meanings from smaller expressions

Question 28

if

Answer 28

to what

Question 29

non-intersection

Answer 29

adjective modifies to a noun

Question 30

anti-intersection adjectives

Answer 30

adjective whose references are not set reffered by the noun it modifies