LING 200 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Morpheme, Media, Entertainment And Arts Alliance, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
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Semantics: the study of meaning in language, meaning: It"s not quite a definition because you have to understand the definition of the words defining the word (circularity problem) Space needle you can point to the building and see it: this would indicate you could switch out two words with the same meaning. The president of the united states and donald. Trump can be switched out in some sentences but not others: also, there are things that have clear meaning but that don"t exist. i. e. unicorn, tooth fairy, etc. Or the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Has meaning but we can"t point to it because it hasn"t occurred yet. It can have different mental images for different people: word may conjure a typical mental image (prototype) but can signify atypical examples as well, example: bird can be a parrot, seagull, etc. Semantic relations: hyponymy/hypernymy, word may have a clear sense but no referent.
