Semantics Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is the word for a semantic relationship that holds between two sentences where the truth of one follows as a logical consequence of the other?
Entailment
What are 5 types of sense relations?
Synonymy Antonymy Hyponymy Homonymy Polysemy
What are 4 different types of Antonym?
Simple
Gradable
Reverses
Converses
What is Hyponomy?
A sense relation whereby ‘lexical entailment’ occurs. A hyponym ( sheep ) includes its hypernym/superordinate (animal)
What is the sense relation called which involves a word having multiple senses that are related to one another? e.g diamond (gemstone vs shape)
Polysemy
What are the three types of homonym?
homophones - bear/bare
homographs- wind/ tear
complete homonyms- ground, bark, bank
What’s an area where syntax interacts with semantics?
Thematic role assignment
What is Thematic Role Assignment?
It is the phenomena of Predicates determining how many types of participants are required in order to describe a complete situation.
What is an example of a One-place predicate?
Shout, think
What is an example of a Two-place predicate?
hit, told
how many places are determined by the predicates ‘put’ and ‘passed’
three. they are three-place predicates. experiencer, theme, goal
