Adjetive meaning

Adjetive meaning

1. Using language to give the meanings of words

   • Catalogue relationships between word meaning,such as that all the words have something to do.
     • Size/ quantity /extend
       • Little and small have closely similar meaning as do large and big is opposite in meaning to little and so on.
       • For example
     • in
   • is

2. Sense relations relevant to adjetives

   • Are framed in terms of entailment possibilities
     • Synonyms
       • is
       • Equivalence of sense
         • For example
         • Mother, mon and mum
           • The paraphrase
             • are
             • The sentences with the same meaning.
     • Complementaries
       • Defined in terms of a pattern of entailment.
         • Divide their domain without remainder.
           • Some other adjetive contrasts that also divide their relevant domains sharply and without residue.
             • For example
             • *Same Different *Right Wrong *True False
       • are
     • Converses
       • Thus a species of synonym that requires reordering of noun phrases.
         • Converseness
           • is
           • Found not only between comparatives adjetives but also in other word classes.
       • are
     • Antonyms
       • Mean any kind of opposite
         • For example
         • Noisy-Silent Rich-Poor
       • is

3. Constructions with adjetives

   • Gradability
     • To say that the language has ways of expressing different levels or degrees of the qualities that they denote.
     • is
   • Adjetives modifying nouns
     • Simple cases of an adjetive modifying a noun are like the intersection of sets
     • are