Semantics Flashcards
(30 cards)
Semantics
Studies the meaning of language
Dictionary style
Representation of word meanings (Mental image)
Sense
Is a form of expressionlal meaning.
prototype
Is a representation of a mental image
Lexical
Is the study of lexical expressions
Usage based
Characterization of word sense
reference
Relates to some expressions
Referents
An expression that something refers too
Linguistic expressions
Has meaning and syntactic properties.
Mental image
Meaning of a word that can be stored in memory as a image.
Hyponymy
One word meaning
Hyponym
Is when X word is referencing Y word in the same sentence
Hypernym
Relationship with other words that refer to other words.
Sister terms
Same level of hierachy
Synonymy
Relationship between words where the reference is the same.
Antonymy
Is a semantic relation that is opposite in a way.
Complementary antonyms
Is a pair of antonyms that is describe by the first word or second word.
Gradable pairs
Represents points on a sequence
Reverses
Words that are reversed
Converses
Two changes in perspective.
Proposition
An expression that is expressed in a sentence.
truth Value
Is the an aspect of a proposition that can be true or false.
Truth conditions
Understatement of the expression of propositions
Entailment
Is a proposition that is true that is being expressed