Semantics

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Semantics

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the sub field of linguistics that studies meaning in language

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sense

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a mental representation of an expressions meaning

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reference

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a symbolic presentation of elements of linguistic structure as, for, example a phrase structure tree or another presentation of linguistically relevant information for example the tags in corpus

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mental image

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a conception of words sense as a picture in the mind of the language user that represents its meaning

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prototype

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for any given set, member that exhibits the typical qualities of the member of that set

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hyponymy

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a meaning relationship between words, where the reference of some word X is included in the reference of some other word Y. X is said to be a hyponym of Y and conversely, Y is said to be a hypernym of x

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synonymy

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a meaning relationship between words where their reference is exactly the same. for example couch and sofa are synonyms

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antonomy

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a meaning of words in which they mean the opposites in some sense

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gradable antonyms

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words that are antonyms and denote opposite ends of a scale. ( ALSO gradient pairs and as scalar antonyms)

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truth value

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either true or false. the reference of a sentence

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entailment

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a relationship between proposition where a proposition p is said to entail another proposition q just in case if p is true q has to be true as well

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pure intersection

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relationship between the reference of an adj and a noun it modifies such that each picks out a particular group of things, and the reference of the resulting phrase is all id the things that are in both the reference set of the adj and the reference set of the sounds

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intersective adjectives

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ad adj whose reference is determined independently from the reference of the noun that it modifies

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sister terms

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words that, in terms of thier reference, are at the same level in the hierarchy i.e. have exactly the same hypernyms

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subsective adjectives

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

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non intersection adj

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

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anti-intersection adjectives

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an adj whose referents are not in the set referred to by the noun it modifies

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relative intersection

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

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pure intersection

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their relationship between the reference of an adj and a noun it modifies such that each picks out a particular group of things and the reference of the resulting phrase is all of the things that are in both the reference set of the adj and the reference set of the noun

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idioms

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a muti word lexical expression whose meaning is not compositional

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compositional

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predicable from meanings of words and their syntactic composition

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converses

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

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reverses

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antonyms in which one words in the pair suggests movement that undoes the movement suggested by the other

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incompatible

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relationship between 2 prepositions where it is impossible for both of them to be true simultaneously

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hypernym

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a meaning relationship between words, where the reference of some word X is included in the reference of some other word Y. X is said to be a hyponym of Y and conversely, Y is said to be a hypernym of x

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preposition

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the name of the lexical category and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as of in for with etc, syntactically, this category consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun phrase to their right result in an expression of category prepositional phrase

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sense

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a mental representation of an expressions meaning

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reference

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a component of linguistic meaning that relates the sense of the some expression to entitles in the outside world. the collection of all the referents of an expression

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mutual entailment

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the relationship between 2 propositions where they entail one other

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referents

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an actual entity of an individual in the world to which some expression refers