LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Silent Film, Causative, Intension

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Linda Gerber

Document Summary

Semantics: the study of the linguistic meanings of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences. Lexical semantics: subfields of semantics, which is concerned with the meanings of words and the meaning relationships among words, and phrasal or sentential semantics, which is concerned with the meanings of syntactic units larger than the word. Pragmatics- the study of how context affects meaning for example, how the sentence it"s cold in here comes to be interpreted as close the windows in certain situations. Semantic properties: the components of meaning of a word, ex: young is a semantic property of baby, colt, puppy . The lexicon is the part of the grammar that contains the knowledge speakers have about individual words and morphemes, including semantic properties. Semantic features: a formal or notational device for expressing the presence or absence of semantic properties by pluses and minuses. Count nouns: nouns that can be enumerated ex: one potato, 2 potatoes.