Chapter 1 Textbook Flashcards

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What is Denotation or Referential Meaning?

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The relationship between words and the things they stand for

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What is Extension?

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The class of entities denoted by a term in the real world (The same as Denotation). ex. Edmonton

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What does Intension mean?

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The defining properties of a word. i.e. Dictionary definition

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What is Connotation?

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A term used to classify additional meaning a word has beyond its central, core meaning

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What are Semantic features?

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Things whose meaning is so obvious you do not have to define them further

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What does Lexicalized mean?

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When a concept is encoded in a full lexical item, such as a noun or adjective

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What does Grammaticalized mean?

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When languages encode some concepts in chinks of a word called affixes

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