LING101 Lecture Notes - Polysemy, Holonymy, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
10 Sep 2013
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Ambiguity the characteristic of having multiple possible meanings. Synonyms words w/ roughly the same meanings; the words are not always appropriately interchangeable though. Can be gradable : ex. hot warm tepid cool cold. Can be absolute (the difference between words is absolute: ex. Homophony having the same sound but different meanings. Can have the same or different spelling. Polysemy one word with multiple related meanings. Head : of bed, of person, of department. Hyponymy word with an is a kind of relationship with another word: ex. Hypernym word that can be considered a category that includes the other word: ex. Meronymy describes a one-way relationship where one word is a part of another word. Paraphrase 2 or more ways of saying the same thing. Entails a sentence entails another when its truth implies the truth of another sentence. She has grandchildren entails she has had children .
