What Speakers Know about Sentence Meaning
Compositional Semantics
Lexical Semantics
(Word Meanings)
Pragmatics
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The study of linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences.
What is semantics?
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A word or words that refer to a person, place, or entity with a unique reference known to the speaker and listener. Usually capitalized in writing.
What is a proper name?
100
When a word has multiple meanings that are related conceptually or historically, is said to be:
What is polysemous?
100
Action or intent that a speaker accomplishes when using language in context
What is a speech act?
100
Dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary or the Webster Collegiate Dictionary are filled with words and their...
What are their meanings?
200
"This sentence is false."
What is a paradox?
200
Nonliterarl suggestive meaning in which an expression that designates one thing is used implicitly to mean something else
What is a metaphor?
200
Big/small, hot/cold, fast/slow/ happy/sad are these kind of antonyms
What are gradable pairs?
200
Pronoun ending with -self that generally requires a noun-phrase antecedent within the same sentence
What is a reflexive pronoun?
200
The sentence "Don't tell me of a man's being able to talk to sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?"
What is an anomaly?
300
"Circles are square."
What is a contradiction?
300
A violation of semantic rules resulting in expressions that seem nonsensical
What is an anomaly?
300
Words that cannot be enumerated or pluralized. For example: rice, water, and milk
What are mass nouns?
300
Refers to words or expressions whose reference relies on context and orientation of the speaker in space and time
What is deixis?
300
"Circles are round."
What is a tautology?
400
When sentences are synonymous, we also say they are _____ of each other.
What are paraphrases?
400
An expression whose meaning does not conform to the principle of compositionally, that is, may be non related to the meaning of its parts
What is an idiom?
400
Words like bear and bare
What are homonyms or homophones?
400
Affirmative, declarative, and are in first-person, present tense
What is a performative sentence?
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A word that substitutes for an object that name of an attribute or concept associated with that object. Crown for a king.
What is a metonym?
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The notion that the meaning of an expression is composed of the meanings of its parts and how they are combined structurally.
What is the Principle of Compositionally?
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"Sentences" make no sense at all because they include words that have no meaning
What is uninterpretable?
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Words that are opposite in meaning.
What are antonyms?
500
pronoun whose antecedent is explicitly mentioned in the discourse
What is a bound pronoun?
500
intended effect of a speech act (warning, promise, or threat)
What is an illocutionary force?
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