Files 6

Question 1

Semantics

Answer 1

Study of lingustic meanings

Question 2

Sense

Answer 2

Mental representation of an expression’s meanings

Question 3

Reference

Answer 3

Component of lingustic meanings that related the sense of some expression to entities in the outside world

Question 4

Lexical semantics

Answer 4

Studies meanings of lexical expressions

Question 5

Compositional semantics

Answer 5

Studies the meaning of phrasal expressions and how those meaning arise given the meanings of lexical expressions

Question 6

Referent

Answer 6

Actual entity or an individual in the word to which some expression refers

Question 7

Mental image

Answer 7

Conception if a word’s sense as a picture in the mind of the language user that represents it’s meaning

Question 8

Hyponymy

Answer 8

Meaning relationship between words

Question 9

Sister terms

Answer 9

Words that are the same level in the hierarchy

Question 10

Synonymy

Answer 10

Meaning relationship between words where their reference is exactly the same

Question 11

Anatonymy

Answer 11

Meaning relationship between words where their meanings are in some sense opposite

Question 12

Gradable

Answer 12

Words that are antonyms and denote opposite ends of the scale

Question 13

Reverses

Answer 13

Antonyms in which one word in the pair suggests movement that undoes the movement suggested by the other

Question 14

Converses

Answer 14

Antonyms in which the first word of the pair suggests a point of view opposite to that of the second word

Question 15

Proposition

Answer 15

Sense expressed by a sentence

Question 16

Truth value

Answer 16

Either true or false.

Question 17

Truth conditions

Answer 17

Set if conditions that would have to hold in the world in order for the proposition expressed by some sentence to be true

Question 18

Entailment

Answer 18

Relationship between propositions where a proposition p is said to entail another proposition q just in case of people is true q has to be true as well

Question 19

Mutual entailment

Answer 19

Relationship between 2 propositions where they entail one another

Question 20

Incompatible

Answer 20

Relationship between 2 propositions where it is impossible for both of them to be true at the same time

Question 21

Principle of compositionality

Answer 21

Notion that the meaning of a phrasal expressions is predictable from the meanings of the expressions it contains and how they were syntactically combined

Question 22

Compositional

Answer 22

Meaning of phrasal expressions that is predictable from the meanings of smaller expressions it contains and how they are syntactically combined

Question 23

Idioms

Answer 23

Multi word lexical expressions whose meaning is not compositional

Question 24

Pure intersection

Answer 24

Relationship between the reference of an adjective and a noun it movies such that each picks out a particular group of things and the reference of the resulting phrase is all of the things that are both the reference set of the adjectives and the reference set of the noun

Question 25

Intersection adjectives

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Adjective whose reference is determined independently from the reference of the noun it modifies

Question 26

Relative intersection

Answer 26

Relationship between adjective and noun reference where the reference of the adjectives is determined relative to the noun reference

Question 27

Subsective adjectives

Answer 27

Adjectives whose reference is included in the set of things that the noun they modify refers to

Question 28

Non-interesection

Answer 28

Adjective whose reference is a subset of the set tht the noun it modifies refers to but that does not in and of itself refer to any particular set of things

Question 29

Anti intersection adjectives

Answer 29

Adjective whose referents are not in the set referred to by the noun that it modifies

Question 30

Prototype

Answer 30

Member that exhibits the typical qualities of the members of the set