WORDS

WORDS

1. There are some semantic properties that words have.

   • Ambiguity
     • A word is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning
       • i.e.: chair
       • There are two types of ambiguity
         • Polysemy
           • States
             • One word has many menaings called senses of that word
               • It has a collection of phonological , syntactic and semantic features.
         • Homonymy
           • states
             • Two word with the same pronunciation and the same spelling, with different meanings.
   • Synonymy
     • It is divided in two status
       • Numerically identical
         • If one concept in someone’s head was simultaneously part of two different words.
       • Merely qualitatively
         • If two words whether in one head or in different ones, had qualitatively identical meanings
   • Vagueness
     • a word is vague if it has a meaning that does not distinguish between two or more different kinds of thing
       • i.e.: Horse
       • However
         • Many words in fact, are both, in that they have more than one meaning and at least one of these meanings applies equally well to various kinds of things.
           • i.e.: column