Linguistics - Semantics
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- Types of semantic relationships:
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Hyponym $\subset$ hypernym
- For example, the hyponym rouge is a subset of the hypernym coleur
- Note that the semantic space, which refers to the range of meaning of words, can be different for different languages
- polysemy refers to the many possible meanings of the same word
- On definition
- Definition have trouble capturing the meaning of a word because edge cases break down
- Another way to define a word is to show a prototype
- Some words like function words can’t really be defined alone
- People use predicate calculus to figure out their meaning
- binary feature analysis
- Natural semantic metalanguage
- Cognitive semantics