Semantics

Semantics

1. Semantics Features

   • The crucial element or feature of meaning that any noun must containin order to be used as the subject (agent) of a verb.

2. Semantic Roles

   • Agent
     • Theme
       • Experiencer
         • Location
           • Source
             • Goal
               • Where do the experiencer/ Agent wants to get
             • From where the agent/ experiencer comes from
           • Where the agent/ experiencer is.
         • When the subject is not performing any action, it is acting as experiencer
       • The "Object" affected by the agent
     • The one that performs the action

3. Lexical relationships

   • Antonymy
     • words with different meanings
   • Synonymy
     • words with similar meaning
   • hyponomy
     • Jerarquical relatioship among words
   • Prototype
     • The idea that we have of something.
   • Polysemy
     • Different meanings for different collocations
   • Methonomy
     • What help us to understand the actual meaning of some messages. Example: I will give you a hand.

4. Study of the meaning of the words

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