COMD 2050 : COMD 2050 Exam 3
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Is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. Semantic roles: all verbs require things, and what they require are semantic roles. Instrument: thing used by an agent to do an action, goal, endpoint of a trajectory through which an entity moves, source. Lexical relations: describing relation between words. Antonyms: words with opposite meaning, 2 types of antonyms, gradable, the negative of one does not necessarily imply the other, example new, old, non-gradable, the negative of one does imply the other, example true, false. Reversive: always verbs, verbal antonym, example enter exit. Hyponym: meaning of one form is included in another, example a dog is always an animal, example an f-150 is always a ford, a ford is always a truck, a truck is always an automobile. Homophones: words that sound the same but are spelled different and have different meanings, example bear, bare.
