Adjective meanings

Adjective meanings

1. Sense relations

   • Entailments
     • propositions

2. Synonyms

   • equivalence of sense
     • replaced word
       • literal meaning not changed
     • sentences
       • same meaning
         • Paraphrase
   • possible in
     • nouns
     • prepositions
     • verbs
     • adverbs

3. Complementaries

   • divide their domain
     • without remainder
   • negative synonyms

4. Antonyms

   • opposition

5. Converses

   • sense relation between
     • comparative forms of antonym
   • requires reordering

6. Meaning postulates

   • Rudolf Carnap
   • way to integrate
     • entailment information
       • into logical system

7. Constructions

   • gradability
     • levels of degree

8. Modifying nouns

   • intersection of sets
   • adjectives that fit this scheme
     • intersective adjectives
       • ambiguity
   • relative adjectives