Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Principle Of Compositionality, Conceptual System, Collateral Damage

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

Document Summary

Hyponymy: x is always contained in y. Complementary: the negation of one means the other (ex. alive / dead) Gradable: extremes within a gradation so they"re opposites (ex. old / young) Reverses: one implies undoing the other /one is the opposite action of the other (ex. zip / unzip) Converses: a different view of the other (ex. above / below) Polysemy: a word has two or more related meanings. Ex. deposit: minerals in the earth, money in the bank. Homophony: single phonetic form has two or more entirely distinct meanings. Ex. bank: financial institution, land at edge of the river. Truth of first sentence implies truth of second. John was lent money by the bank to buy a house. Set of associations on a word can evoke. Problem: empty referents, same referent for various expressions. Extension: the set of entities an expression selects in the world. Representing a word"s intentions by smaller semantic components.