LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hyponymy And Hypernymy, Implicature, Pragmatics
19 Apr 2017
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Words that are pronounced the same, but have different (unrelated) meaning. Reference: relation between language and the actual things or state of affairs in the world. Sense: the sense of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other expressions in the language. Synonymy: two words are synonymous if they have the same meaning. Antonymy: two words are antonymous if they are opposite in some sense. X is a hyponym of y if in all possible scenarios, x is a subset of y. The president of the united states (could refer to any of the 46 presidents) This slide (could refer to a slide in detroit or northampton) Referent: individual referred to in the actual world. Sense: male child of the person referred to as homer simpson. Sense: male child of the person referred to as marge simpson. Give an example of a referent for each of the following:
