LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deixis, Grammaticalization, Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

Synonym: words or expressions that have the same meaning in some or all contexts: perfect synonymy is rare. Antonyms: words or phrases that are opposite with respect to some component of their meaning. Polysemy: a word has two or more related meanings. Homophony: single phonetic form has two or more entirely distinct meanings: separate words with same pronunciation rather than single word with different meanings. Paraphrase: two sentences that have essentially the same meaning. Entailment: when the truth of one sentence guarantees the truth of another sentences. Contradiction: when two sentences cannot both be true. Connotation: set of associations that a word"s use can evoke: winter: cold, snow, freezing, ice. Denotation: the meaning of a word or phrase with the entities to which it refers: cannot use for time or period dependent events. Extension and intension: extension: set of real world examples, intension: real meaning of the phrase.