LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Barbara Walters, Polysemy, Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Tree diagrams to represent deep structure and surface structure of wh-questions. Link between syntactic structure and sentence meaning. Study of linguistic meaning and how it is represented in our minds: word meaning (next week, sentence meaning (this week, utterance meaning. A sentence"s meaning is composed of: the meanings of the words in the sentence, the way those words are combined. Meaning of a sentence isn"t just adding together words. Some phrases/sentences can have multiple meanings: structural ambiguity at the level of syntax, lexical ambiguity at the level of words. In linguistics, ambiguity strictly means more than one meaning". Yoko ono will talk about her husband john lennon who was killed in an interview with. That pitcher is very cute! : lexical ambiguity. Homonymy" two different words that happen to have the same form. Polysemy" multiple senses that are related to each other: other examples: record, flurry, paper. Headlines result in syntactical ambiguities as they often leave out function words.