SEMANTICS

SEMANTICS

1. Semantic or thematic roles

   • Agent and theme
   • Intrument and experiencer
   • Location, source, goal

2. Sematic features

   • -animate, +animate, -human, +human, etc
   • Words are like containers

3. Lexical relations

   • synonimy: words very similar
   • Antonymy: opposite meanings
     • Gradable
     • Non-gradable
     • Reversives
   • Word play: Usually for humor effects
   • Metonymy: using one word to refer to anoher
   • Polysemy: Same form and similar meanings
   • Hyponymy: When the meaning of a word has realtion or is included in the meaning of another
     • Hierarchical relationship
   • Homophones: two diefferent form
   • Prototype: the characteristic instance

4. Collocation

   • Corpus linguistics

5. The study of the meaning of words

   • Conceptual meaning
     • Dictionary meaning
   • Associative meaning
     • What people associate the words with in general