LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Gottlob Frege, Lexical Semantics, Syntactic Ambiguity
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This week is semantics (hw 7 due 31, hw goes out then) Hw 8 due friday after spring break (are responsible for knowing) Lexical ambiguity, structure is the same, meaning is different. Two sisters reunited after 18 years at checkout counter . Syntactic ambiguity can occur without change in word meaning (lexical change) Changes to syllabus: (will be put up on bb later) Final exam: thursday, may 18 @ 7:00 ives hall 305. Last parts, require extra reading (gone up on bb) Things won"t talk about much: homophony & polysemy, synonyms & antonyms. Extension (reference) - item, in language, refers to something. Reference - object or set of objects picked out. Sense - properties of the meaning that help identify its reference. The extension is a member of the set of roses. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet . A rose is a rose is a rose .