Semantics

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Semantics

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The study of linguistic meaning

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lexical semantics

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A subfield of semantics that studies meaning of lexical expressions

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Compositional semantics

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A subfield of semantics that studies the meaning of phrasal expressions

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Mental image definition

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A conception of a word’s sense as a picture in the mind of the language user that represents its meaning

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hyponymy

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A meaning relationship between words, where the reference of one word is represented in another word.

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Synonymy

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A meaning relationship between words where their reference is exactly the same

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Antonymy

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A meaning relationship between words where their meanings are opposite

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proposition

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The sense expressed by a sentence

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Truth value

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Either true or false

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Truth conditions

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The set of conditions that would have to hold in the world in order for the proposition to be true

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Entailment

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A relationship between propositions where a proposition has to be true

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Mutual entailment

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The relationship between two propositions where they entail one another

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Incompatibility

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The relationship between two propositions where it is important for both of them to be true simultaneously

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principle of compositionality

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The notion that the meaning of a phrasal expression is predictable from the meaning of the expressions it contains and how they were syntactically combined

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Intersective adjectives

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An adjective whose reference is determined independently from the reference of the noun that is being modified

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subsective adjectives

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

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relative intersection

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type of relationship between adjective and noun reference where the reference of the adjective is determined relative to the noun reference

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adjective

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category

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noun phrase

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The name of a syntactic category that consists of the proper names, pronouns and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution

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relative intersection

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Type of relationship between adjective and noun reference where the reference of the adjective is determined relative to the noun reference

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non-intersective adjective

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Adjective whose reference is a subset of the set that noun it modifies refers to.

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anti-intersective adjective

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

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verb phrases

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The name of a syntactic category that consists of all expressions which if combined with a noun to their left results in a sentence

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word formation process

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The combination of morphemes according to rules of language in question to make new words or forms of words

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word order

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The linear order that words can occur in some phrasal expression

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vowel harmony

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long distance assimilation between vowels

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verb

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lexical that consists of all words that -ing or -able can be suffixed

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syntax

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a component of mental grammar that deals with constructing phrasal expressions

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non-contrastive

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a term used to describe two sounds that are not used to differentiate words in a language

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monophthong

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a simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of the vocal organs