ACS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Lexical Semantics, Principle Of Compositionality
12 Mar 2017
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Semantics help to tease out the patterns of meaning that are embedded in words within a particular natural language. Determining meaning is not just a product of individualized memorized meanings of things, but also . How ideas and definitions are organized within larger schemes of meaning in a language. Semantics - the meanings of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences. Lexical semantics - the meaning of words and their relations. Phrasal or sentential semantics - concerned with the meanings of the syntactic units that are larger than the words themselves. Think of noun phrases, verb phrases, etc. Meaning may not always be completely obvious, even to native speakers. In some cases, compositionality completely break down, leading to a semantic anomaly. These are cases where the meaning is not immediately or clearly obvious. Metaphor - require imagination to derive meaning in situ (in context/present time)
